Your parents are visiting for the weekend. After a pleasant dinner, everyone gathers in the family room for a video home movie. You turn on your TV and VCR, pop the cassette into the slot and hit the ...

Any time I get three questions on the same topic in one week, I know it must deserve a little attention. The topic? Head cleaners, and whether and how not to use them. S.J.R. from a western suburb put ...

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 ...

Q: I have old VCR tapes, and I watch from time to time. I just picked one up and noticed some sort of white or gray film has formed on the tape. It seems to have caused some problems with replaying ...