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.

Even though the Laserdisc looks like modern technology, it never came close to surpassing the videocassette, and it was made obsolete by the DVD. Laserdiscs are six times larger than DVDs ...

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 ...