The back of the 2View VHS box. The instructions are all in Dutch, as its (sole) launch market. (Credit: Techmoan, YouTube) Over the decades the video and music industries have tried a wide range ...

However, simply posting a VHS on eBay doesn’t guarantee you’ll get big bucks — the condition must be top-notch. VHS tapes degrade 10% to 20% over 10 to 25 years, and some footage could be ...

VHS – short for video home system – are cassette tapes that record analog video content. (iStock) Heritage Auctions, a Dallas-based auction house, on the other hand, has 260 VHS tapes up for sale.

She inherited some of them from her grandmother, a children’s librarian with a vast collection. Ms. Bleakney’s VHS tapes are “huge nostalgia,” she said, for a child of the 1980s.

Sometimes nostalgia comes with a big price tag. A sealed, near-mint condition 1986 VHS of “Back to the Future” recently sold at auction for $75,000, setting a new record for a videotape.

The VHS auction, organized by Texas-based Heritage Auctions, featured a total of 260 sealed VHS tapes, most of which were classic, first-edition copies of beloved films from the ‘70s and ‘80s.

But, Henderson said, unlike with vinyl records, no one seems to cling to VHS for romantic reasons. “DVDs replaced VHS really fast compared to other format changes through the years,” Henderson ...