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 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 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...

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...

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...