When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Videotape still stores the intellectual assets of several generations of television production.

Nearly fifty years back, Sony launched the DVC-2400, their first consumer grade video camera. This unit weighed in at 10 pounds, and recorded only 20 minutes of footage per reel. It left something to ...

In 1956, the first video tape recorders hit the market. It was almost another 10 years before they became part of "home entertainment." Bet you've still got a few VHS tapes lying around… Video has ...

In an age of electronic gadgetry, the U.S. home is taking on the look of a radio-TV station. Most of the equipment, including tape recorders, stereo, FM tuners and color TV, is already in place, and ...