Recorded from the Disney Channel during a Spring Preview in April 1993.
Continue readingVHS Video Cover Art: 1980s to Early 1990s
VHS Video Cover Art, an awesome new book by Tom Hodge, looks back at the wonderful VHS artwork of the ’80s and early ’90s.
Continue readingVHS Inspired Skateboard Decks
These retro skateboards designs by 5BORO are based on VHS cover sleeve artwork from brands like Memorex, Fuji, Sony and TDK.
Continue readingCaptain America: Winter Soldier as 80s Action Movie [VHS Trailer]
A cheesy ’80s VHS style trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier by ChiefBrodyRules.
Continue readingBest Ways to Find VHS Tapes Online
VHS may be gradually fading into obscurity, but the internet still provides a great marketplace for old tapes. And unless a video is super rare, you can find most tapes for really cheap if not for free.
Continue readingSony Super Beta VCR Commercial & Demo Tape (1985)
Betamax VCR from Sony. Looks like the SL-HF900 model. It’s “the video cassette recorder that the experts say is 20% sharper than all others!”
Continue readingBetamax vs VHS: How Sony’s Cassette Recorder Failed
In this video The Engineer Guy gives us a brief history of Betamax and why it lost to VHS in the original home video format war.
Continue readingWhat a ’90s Anime Collection Looked Like
Screenshot: Ken Kubo the ‘Otaking’ from Otaku no Video (1991) via The Anime Nostalgia Tumblr Otaku no Video (“Geeks’ Video”
Continue readingGiant VHS Monolith by David Herbert
A giant 8 foot tall replica of a 2001: A Space Odyssey videocassete by American sculptor David Herbert.
Continue readingStack of VHS Boxes
The wonderful thing about a stack of random VHS tapes is the fact that anything could be on them. It could be something amazing or something horrific. Even if it’s labelled, what is contained within could be still be a complete surprise.
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