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  • Panasonic launches VHS-Blu-ray player combo

    Panasonic launches VHS-Blu-ray player combo

    Model from latest range upconverts video cassettes 12 March 2009 11:59 GMT

    Panasonic has announced new Blu-ray players in the States, including the launch of a model that offers upconverting VHS playback.

    Successors to Panasonic's DMP-BD35 and DMP-BD55, the three new models are the DMP-BD60, DMP-BD80, DMP-BD70V.

  • Roxio launches Easy VHS to DVD

    Roxio launches Easy VHS to DVD

    Digitise your analogue recordings 10 December 2008 13:07 GMT

    Roxio has announced the immediate availability of Roxio Easy VHS to DVD, a combination of software and hardware that claims to let users to quickly digitise the content of VHS tapes.

    Users attach the included hardware to their USB 2.0 port,...

  • JVC last to stop production of standalone VHS players. Home Cinema, VHS, DVD, JVC, Statistics 0

    JVC last to stop production of standalone VHS players

    End of an era 28 October 2008 14:45 GMT

    JVC has stopped producing VHS video cassette players and will end global sales of such machines when existing inventories run out.

    The other major Japanese manufacturers have already stopped producing standalone VHS players, so JVC's exit...

  • Panasonic DMR-BR630V gets Japanese launch. Home Cinema, Panasonic, VHS, Blu-ray, PVRs 0

    Panasonic DMR-BR630V gets Japanese launch

    Something old, new and Blu 26 August 2008 11:46 GMT

    In Japan, Panasonic has launched the DMR-BR630V personal video recorder that spans a fair few years of home cinema tech with a VHS deck and Blu-ray drive.

    In addition, there's a 320GB hard drive for storage and recording, and presumably...

  • HD video duo from JVC. Home Cinema, Video And Editing, PVRs, JVC, VHS, Photos 0

    HD video duo from JVC

    VHS, DVD and both digital and analogue radio offered 4 June 2008 16:54 GMT

    JVC/Victor has launched two new HD video recorders that allow the recording of two programs simultaneously.

    The main difference between the two models is their storage capacity: 250GB for the DR-HX250 and 500 GB for the DR-HX500.

  • "Rescue Your Videotapes" launches

    Back up all your old VHS to PC or DVD 4 June 2008 14:12 GMT

    MAGIX has announced the launch of "Rescue Your Videotapes".

    With this "video rescue package" you can back up your VHS and all other tape formats onto your PC or directly to DVD - and add animated menus if you so wish.

    With...

  • USB VCR converter launches at Firebox. Home Cinema, USB gadgets, Firebox, VHS 0

    USB VCR converter launches at Firebox

    Are you ready to move on from VHS? 22 May 2008 15:38 GMT

    VHS tapes were rubbish. Dodgy tracking, limited lifespan, slow spools, below par quality, etc, etc. But we all have some classics lying around on tape somewhere taking up space and serving as as annoying analogue reminder of the past.

    Firebox...

  • Sharp goes 3-in-1 for video player. Home Cinema, Sharp, VHS 0

    Sharp goes 3-in-1 for video player

    Sharp integrates video playback options 1 May 2007 12:26 GMT

    Sharp has announced the availability of a three-in-one video player that goes old school with inclusion of VHS.

    The AQUOS line of products incorporates VHS, DVD and a 250GB HDD for video recording and just like other AQUOS media recorders...

  • Panasonic DMR-ES30V VCR DVD recorder. Home Cinema, VHS, DVD, Panasonic 0

    Panasonic DMR-ES30V VCR DVD recorder review

    4.0 REVIEW 14 June 2005 0:09 GMT

    The video boom of the eighties and nineties had one rather untidy consequence - an unsightly pile of VHS tapes in every living room around the country, most probably full of stuff you might not have watched before taping over it again.

    The...

  • The player is available now and costs £180

    Panasonic launches DVD Video Combi again

    24 November 2004 12:36 GMT

    Just as the news that Dixons is to stop selling VHS players in the UK, Panasonic has announced that it is happy to push a DVD player and Video Recorder combi that it released earlier in the year for those making the transition.

    The NV-VP31EBS...

  • DVD hasn’t taken long to dominate the home entertainment market

    VHS players served last rites

    22 November 2004 15:09 GMT

    After 25 years, it seems the video player has been served its last rites. Dixons, who controls over 60 per cent of the retail electronic market in the UK has announced that it has stopped selling VCR units in favour of DVD players.

    "We are...

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