“If you had a really moldy tape, there was mold flying everywhere,” Crouch told me about existing cleaning methods. “I just ...

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.

Kolkata: Film aficionados are shocked that the only surviving VHS tapes of Mrinal Sen's Hindi TV series ‘Kabhi Door Kabhi Paas' were "lost" at customs.

Even though the typical television of the time was box-shaped and staticky, others were precursors to our modern standards. These TVs were widescreen or came with an attached VCR player.