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In January 2023, it was reported that VHS tapes were once again becoming valuable collectors items. [96] VHS collecting would make a comeback in the 2020s. [97] [96] The 2024 horror film, Alien: Romulus, will have a limited release on VHS, marking the first major Hollywood film to receive an official VHS release since 2006. [98]
The two companies competed fiercely to encourage others to adopt their format, but by 1984 forty companies were using JVC's VHS format, while only 12 used Betamax. Sony began producing VHS recorders in 1988. However, Sony stopped making Betamax recorders for the US market in 1993; they stopped production of the format completely in 2002.
VCRs can also play back prerecorded tapes, which were widely available for purchase and rental starting in the 80s and 90s, most popularly in the VHS videocassette format. Blank tapes were sold to make recordings. VCRs declined in popularity during the 2000s and in 2016, Funai Electric, the last remaining manufacturer, ceased production. [1]
"VCR"-format cassettes in case (left) and on own (right). A full-size CD is shown for scale. Size comparison between a Betamax cassette (top) and a VHS cassette (bottom) The videotape format war was a period of competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog video videocassette and video cassette recorders (VCR) in the late 1970s and the 1980s, mainly involving the ...
A pair of VHS aficionados have transformed their basements into their own private mom-and-pop video rental shops -- with thousands of tapes, neon lights and more.
The Betamax format was chosen because the cassettes were slightly smaller than VHS cassettes, and thus made the prosthetics easier to construct. [ 34 ] In the 2006 episode of Doctor Who entitled The Idiot’s Lantern , the Tenth Doctor beats the episode’s main enemy and entraps her for all eternity in a videotape he created thirty years too ...
On sites like eBay and LoveAntiques, collectible VHS tapes are valued at upwards of nearly $10,000 - depending on the rarity and condition of the tape, of course.
In terms of consignment, Heritage Auctions has placed in their "Vintage VHS Tapes Value Guide" that the most desirable VHS tapes released between 1979 and 1990 are still in their original factory shrink wrap. [1] When VCRs were first released in 1977, they were priced between $1,000 to $1,400 which would roughly equal $4,900 to $6,900 in 2023 ...