Your old VHS tapes are likely gathering dust, and they won't last forever. Fortunately, it's easier than ever to preserve them by converting to digital.

We've been talking a lot about emotional response recently on RedShark with reference to pristine imagery. But it seems that sometimes the worse the footage looks, the better the audience response.

Bringing old tapes back to life can be frustrating, but the ClearClick converter made it pretty straightforward for me. After plugging in my VCR and hooking up the converter, I was able to record my ...

A new app called VHS Camcorder transforms your mobile device into a bona fide over-the-shoulder camcorder from the '80s. If you're like me, you're probably wondering why anyone would want to ...

If you’ve got a collection of old VHS tapes filled with family memories or classic films, you may want to preserve them before they become unplayable. VHS tapes, which were once the main way to watch ...

Thomas Worth swears he didn't expect any of this. He never expected that, 10 days after it launched, VHS Camcorder, his goofy $3.99 video app, would be No. 2 on Apple's chart for paid apps, second ...

One of my earliest memories, from when I was four or five years old, is seeing a cardboard display case decked out with pristine copies of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie, complete with the iconic bat ...

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A 1994 triple murder in Miramar, Florida, that was captured by a home security camera and recorded on a VHS tape is featured in a new episode of Investigation Discovery’s “See No Evil” that airs Feb.

If you thought home videos from the 80s look crap solely because of the inexplicably horrific fashion sense of the people that appear in them, think again. Sure, the mullet hair-dos, velour shirts, ...

Get out your Walkman and Macintosh SE, because it's the '80s and we're shooting lots of grainy video. At least that's what we're pretending to do. There's a new app that lets you shoot videos that ...

There aren’t many fathomable reasons to filter your crystal-clear smartphone’s camera to look like a messy, tracking-riddled VHS-style camcorder. For ‘90s parties, maybe. Or if you’re making a movie ...