When Nicole Wiegand wants to relax, she reaches back to 1987. Most evenings, Ms. Wiegand, a 37-year-old owner of an art store in Philadelphia, browses her extensive video collection, pops one into a ...
Director Josh Johnson's doc is a love letter to the outdated medium and explores how VHS revolutionized people's relationship with media. By Joshua Stecker Rewind This! Still - H 2013 AUSTIN — While ...
I admit it, I’m a sentimental old fart. I get choked up and maudlin very often, when I think of family and friends, a moment in time when I realized the tragedy life can bring to us, or the joy. I ...
"They've made it so simple to use, the cat could operate it." One of the many great documentaries playing the upcoming SXSW Film Festival is a small indie doc we've been following closely for over a ...
While VHS might be dead, according to former Colbert Report/Daily Show writer Eric Drysdale, tape rewinders are alive and well, brimming with new features designed for the internet age. [Funny or Die] ...
VHS -- the beloved videotape format that bravely won the war against Betamax and charmed millions of Americans by allowing them to enjoy mindless Hollywood entertainment without leaving their homes -- ...
SXSW may be all about the latest in social apps and innovative hardware, but it’s also nostalgia central here in Austin. There are pop-up vintage shops opening up in town, we spotted a working ...
WASHINGTON — “What is this?” asks a young, hip, bearded dad. “It’s a CD!” says his young daughter. Actually, it’s a VHS tape. The family is gathered in the back room of Comet Ping Pong in Northwest ...
In the 1970s, the first ads began appearing in the Caller-Times for the newest home entertainment system, VCRs. Record the TV programs and games you might miss and watch them later, for around $1,000 ...
Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Jul 22, 2016 at 12:38 pm July 22, 2016 at 1:19 pm ...
Holly “Fright” Clark's store comes as an expansion of Rewind, which has operated for about a year and a half as a pop-up ...
Be kind rewind. Antigo Police took to social media to scold the person who dumped a bunch of VHS tapes onto a city street. A copy of 1981 comedy hit Porky's was among the tapes dumped onto Western ...