Does this image take you back? Once a staple for most ’80s and ’90s families, it’s certainly been a long time since we’ve seen the VHS camcorder in action. And after the cessation of VCR production ...

I cleaned out a cabinet a few years ago and found a stack of old Super 8 tapes. I’ll never forget the way Mom’s face lit up after I digitized videos of her late brother Harold Jr.’s wedding.

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Q: After reading your recommendation of this product (in Sunday’s paper) to transfer old VHS tapes to DVD, I looked it up, only to discover that it is only a DVD player/VCR recorder! Perhaps you could ...

Q: I’ve got a ton of old VHS tapes. How can I put them on DVD? A: You’ll need a computer that has a DVD recorder and Honest Technology’s VHS to DVD 5.0, for ...

I'm not the newbie but I'm asking this on behalf of some coworkers who heard the rumor that I'm the in-house computer geek-a-nerd know-it-all. The only thing I don't know is how to tell non-technical ...

This article also appeared in the December 2014 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. Q. I need to convert my VCR tapes to DVDs. Can you recommend a device to do that?—Liss Lieberman, Bay Shore, NY A.

I have an old Sony Hi-8 camcorder and wanted to transfer the footage on the tapes to my computer in either .avi or .mpg format.<BR><BR>I guess a video capture card and some sort of software to capture ...

Talk about the end of an era — VHS tapes aren't even made anymore. There are young generations now that can't even remember what life was like before cell phones had built-in cameras. Meanwhile, I can ...