When inserted into a VCR player, light is used to read the tape, which is played on the connected TV. Japanese company ... technology advanced. In the VHS versus Laserdisc battle, VHS was ...

Everyone loves to compare it to Beta vs VHS ... I bought Laserdisc. I had only Universal movies as I watched the massive marketing campaign for RCA CED Disc, TV spots, displays everywhere ...

LaserDisc quickly fell into a distant second place behind VHS. But the format endured ... output 250 lines of video to a TV screen, a half-decent LaserDisc player could do 425.

Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric, a company that claims to be the last manufacturer of videocassette recorders (VCRs), will manufacture its last VHS player this month.

If you've got some old memories locked away on a VHS tape that you've been meaning ... You won't even need to plug it into a TV, which is good, because not all TVs these days have RCA inputs ...

LazerDisc and Betamax might have won a few battles, but VHS won the war over the home video market. If you remembered to be kind and rewind, your old VCR tapes might be worth some serious money.

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. The first device running Google's new Android TV platform will be the Nexus ...