Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s a slice of history that will make any retro-tech fan grin: before TikTok and iMovie, there was a beast called the Videonics DirectED Plus. This early attempt at democratizing …read more Continue reading Videonics: The Dawn of Home Video Editing, Revisited
Tape robots are typically used in places that store vast amounts of data – think film studios and government archives. If you’ve seen the 1995 cult movie Hackers, you might …read more Continue reading VHS Robot Swaps Tapes, as Seen in Hackers
When it’s not just sticking fake gears on things and calling it a day, the Steampunk look is pretty cool. Imagining technology in a world stuck with Victorian aesthetics is …read more Continue reading YouTube Like It’s 1970s France with this Minitel-VCR Mashup
The VHS VCR has now passed from widespread use, and can thus be found as a ready supply of interesting parts for the curious hardware hacker. [Clewsy] has a novel use for a VCR head scanning drum, the …read more
The news has been full of reports that the last company manufacturing consumer VCRs will cease making them this year. I think most of us are surprised that the event is only happening now. After all, these days, video recording is likely to be on a hard drive, a USB stick, or on a server somewhere. Even recording to DVDs seems a bit quaint these days.
Back before there were web sites, people had to get information from magazines like Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, and a few others. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was common to see …read more
We won’t miss our VCRs, but we’ll always remember them. The post The VCR Is Officially Dead, But We’ll Never Forget It appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading The VCR Is Officially Dead, But We’ll Never Forget It
