If your movies are on videocassette , ION makes a great little device called a ClearClick Video to Digital Converter for your PC or Mac. It’s a small device — you plug one end into your computer and the other end into your VCR and it saves your videos in digital format on your co...
that my mum and various friends would send to me on VHS tapes from England that I could then watch on the universal VCR I owned at the time. (That show is still going strong as a staple of Friday night telly in England, now almost in its twentieth year.) I based the original versio...
Let's look at the big differences between two types of storage devices — cassette tapes and hard disks: The magnetic recording material on a cassette tape is coated onto a thin plastic strip. In a hard disk, the magnetic recording material is layered onto a high-precision aluminum or glass...
If your hard drive crashes, chances are good that you will lose some data. But taking a proactive stance by backing up your hard drive will limit the damage. It's better to lose a few files than a whole life's worth of work and information. For more on hard drives, viruses and rela...
Some OTA DVRs are little more than a glorified VCR (remember recording shows on VHS tapes?), but others offer channel guide subscriptions so you don’t have to just channel surf and hope for the best. A few OTA DVRs, like TiVo Edge and TiVo BOLT, even double as streaming devices, ...
Don't know what to do with old VHS tapes? Check our guide aboutthings you can do with old VHS tapes. Benefits of Digitization The analog videotapes and film reels take up a lot of space. Because of that, people often store them in the attic or basement, which are inappropriate places...
You could certainly argue for the cheapness of VHS nowadays. Since it has become so obsolete, people are getting rid of their VCRs for next to nothing, and you can find VHS tapes for pennies or completely free. For the video enthusiast, VHS tapes are an almost free gold mine of movies...
The way I remember things are frozen in time. For example, I remember dial up internet, floppy disks, VCR, audio cassette tapes, the 9/11 attacks, etc. I know my experiences may be different than someone else's experiences who remembered those things as a college student. In the same...
“He was just a outcast, and you know how kids are nowadays.” Crooks worked at a nursing home as a dietary aid, a job that generally involves food preparation. In a statement provided Sunday to USA TODAY, Marcie Grimm, the administrator of Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation,...
there was a good chance you were riveted by the O.J. Simpson trial: over 150 million Americans watched the reading of the verdict. In prime time,Seinfeld,Friends,ER,Home Improvement, andGrace Under Firewere among the most popular series that you could record on the VHS tapes in your VCR...