Their parent company also owned Meade and Coronado, both well-known optical brands. A recent video from [Reflactor] brought it to our attention that Orion abruptly ceased operations on July 9th.

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 ...

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.

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.