(NBC) - They're everywhere. VHS tapes, stacked in closets and on shelves and in boxes out in the garage. These tapes deteriorate rapidly. In fact, after 10 years, they breakdown significantly. If you ...

I've tested and reviewed tech, pet, fitness and home gear for decades. Time stops for no one, and for no technology. There was a time when you probably preserved family memories by saving them to ...

I got it to convert a couple VHS tapes to DVD's and it works pretty well (I just capture the video in 720x480 MPEG-2, encode the audio in AC3, mux it with the video, and burn it). The minimium system ...

Time keeps moving forward, and old technologies like VHS tapes are fading away. Many of us have tapes full of family memories, but without a VCR, we can’t watch them anymore. These tapes are in danger ...

For those of you too young to remember, from the 1970s to the 1990s, the dominant format of home video was the Video Home System, better known as VHS. VHS tapes were absolutely everywhere, used for ...

The father of a friend wants to tranfer copy guarded VHS tapes to DVD, in the simplest way possible. I want to suggest a standalone, VHS/DVD unit. I've been out of that loop for a while, so I'm asking ...

This article also appeared in the December 2014 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. Q. I need to convert my VCR tapes to DVDs. Can you recommend a device to do that?—Liss Lieberman, Bay Shore, NY A.

Good news, everyone: My bar mitzvah videos from the mid-1990s are now digitized for the ages. While I have no intention of actually watching them — oy, the embarrassment — I recently received the ...

VHS tapes have been a popular format for recording and storing video footage for decades. Despite their decline in use, many people still have valuable memories on these tapes that they want to ...

Oh, how they mock you. They took over your family room, then your garage. Now, the bulky things are eating up every spare inch of bookshelf, collecting dust and crowding out everything else you own.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you own analog tape covered in fuzzy gunk, this machine might make them playable again. If you own analog tape ...