I cleaned out a cabinet a few years ago and found a stack of old Super 8 tapes. I’ll never forget the way Mom’s face lit up after I digitized videos of her late brother Harold Jr.’s wedding.

VCR converters are devices designed to transfer video content from old VHS tapes to modern digital formats. With many people holding onto cherished recordings from decades ago, converting these tapes ...

Technology has taken us from tapes to DVDs to digital streaming in just a few decades. But while a teenager today may have no idea what a VHS tape is, many of us who were around between 1977 and the ...

I cleaned out a cabinet a few years ago and found a stack of old Super 8 tapes. I’ll never forget the way Mom’s face lit up after I digitized videos of her late brother Harold Jr.’s wedding.

The word nostalgia tends to come up whenever analog media gets discussed. “I’m not against it,” Jessica G.Z., the founder of T.A.P.E. (Teach. Archive. Preserve. Exhibit.), told me. “It’s just not my ...

If my son asked me today to see video of my late grandfather, whose name he bears, I’d be in trouble. First, I’d have to locate the VHS tapes. Then I’d have to hunt down a gray-market VCR. ($500 and ...