(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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I used CVS to convert three old VHS tapes to DVD. The process was simple — I dropped off my tapes at the photo counter and picked up the DVDs about 4.5 weeks later. The DVDs worked fine, and the tapes ...

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 ...

What would be the best way to transfer VHS tapes to a PC, so it could be both stored and viewed on it (and on any TV hooked up to its SVideo out) <B>but also</B> to be recorded on a CDR (DVD ...

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 ...

I’d been meaning to convert my old VHS tapes to DVD for years, but like most people, it stayed on the to-do list… until I found a dusty box in my garage labeled “Summer 2001 – Camping + Birthdays.” ...

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 ...