There isn’t much I miss more than wandering the aisles of the video rental store, staring at the VHS and DVD covers that would imminently haunt my nightmares. Something about VHS cover art hit ...

One thing that we certainly miss as a society for sure is perusing the aisles at the video store. Yeah sure, streaming services have made it way easier to just search and find what you want and just ...

Digital media may be more convenient in terms of access, quality and storage space, but VHS and other forms of physical movies will have something that no streaming service or m4v file never will: the ...

Whenever technology brings format changes in personal media—vinyl to cassettes, VHS to DVD, or CDs to MP3s—not everything gets preserved. Some things just ... disappear. And that loss isn't restricted ...

Now that the last new VCR is about to be made, it's time to start appreciating the device and its medium—the humble VHS tape—from an historical and artistic perspective. Yes, that is possible. VHS ...

It’s hard to remember in today’s digital world, where nearly everything is just a string of code on a hard drive, but physical media used to be beautiful. And not just the giant, colorful album ...

As a video store clerk in the mid-‘90s, my favorite thing to do was re-shelve the horror section. The box art was truly second to none. After work, I would spend what felt like hours on end doing ...

There is an undeniable lure to obsolete media. The internet proves it every day. Case in point: a stubborn revival of the VHS format. Supplanted by DVD, which in turn was supplanted by streaming video ...