ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Like many consumer products, the home videocassette recorder has shrunk a lot over the years, going from carry-on luggage-sized steel boxes weighing 30 pounds or more, to lightweight ...

What VHS couldn't do, digital did. Sony's Betamax video tape recorder, which famously lost the 1980s video format war but held on for decades as a niche product, will finally be laid to rest after ...

Consumer electronics chain store Dixons is to stop selling video recorders because of the rise in popularity of DVD technology. The store, which has sold VCRs for 26 years, said that DVD sales had ...

Sony Electronics debuted its next-generation multi-function DVDirect™ DVD recorder which can quickly transfer high-definition home videos and digital photos to DVD discs without using a computer. The ...

The iconic video-cassette recorder (VCR) is joining camera film, eight-track tapes and floppy disks on the ever-growing scrapheap of extinct technology. Japan's Funai Electric, the world's last ...