ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Like many consumer products, the home videocassette recorder has shrunk a lot over the years, going from carry-on luggage-sized steel boxes weighing 30 pounds or more, to lightweight ...

National VCR Day celebrates the technology that changed how Americans watched and recorded television at home.

This month, the world’s last manufacturer of VCRs will manufacture its last VCR. Sure, you won’t notice that they’re gone. But it’s a good time to remember what they meant when they were here. VCRs ...

The VCR gave viewers the ability to record television programs and watch them on their own schedule. The technology helped ...

Usually, when you're selling something on eBay or another website, you're just happy to get some old items off your hands (and make some money off of them). Matt Shoukry of St. Louis, Missouri, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The videocassette recorder that revolutionized home entertainment by allowing television audiences to capture their favorite shows on tape and watch them at ...

Eons ago, or at least 40 years ago, there were fewer TV channels than you could count on your fingers and toes and the programming schedule was set by television networks. We all watched TV, but maybe ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the fall of 1988, Henry C. Yuen tried to program his VCR to tape a ...