The Era of VHS Conversion to Digital (DVDs, Downloads & Streaming)

The novelty and affordability of capturing memories on hand-held camcorders (video cameras) and watching them back on VCRs led to practically every home in America slowly amassing stacks and stacks (and stacks) of VHS tapes. Remember renting movies from video stores? Those were VHS tapes.Īfter a brief battle with Betamax for home recording and viewing supremacy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the VHS (Video Home System) videocassette tape became the premier home video recording and viewing format through the end of the 20th century. The videotapes measure one inch thick, seven inches wide, and four inches tall (the size of a stapler or a small book). If you are still hanging on to home videos you or your family made in the 1980s and 1990s, chances are they are VHS video cassette tapes, the most prolific format from the RCA and Sony camcorder era.

But this is more than a matter of coolness.

“Let’s go out and buy a new VHS tape!” said nobody in the last ten years.

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