
While VCRs had about a 20-year reign as the video player/recorder for the home, things changed with the introduction of the DVD in the late 1990s. The players and tapes didn’t become readily available for consumers until the late 1970s. Before the sticker shock floors you, these were created for professional use. The player cost $50,000 and a 90-minute reel of tape cost $300. The first VHS tape and recording system was introduced to the world in 1956.

Whether you have a stack of VHS tapes that you’ve wanted to digitize, or you found a box of VHS tapes in your parent’s house, you can easily convert those VHS tapes to DVDs. There was a time when wedding videos, family home videos, and school performances were recorded using video cameras and then saved on VHS tapes.

Today, capturing family videos can be done easily and quickly with the phone in our pocket.
