It’s hard to believe that vintage VHS tapes are worth anything, let alone thousands of dollars when two decades ago I was violently rewinding mine with a half-chewed pencil dug into its grooves.

The average cost of a secondhand VHS tape is about $11, according to eBay. “If your dog chewed the case or the kids scribbled all over it, it’s probably not worth much. However, if you have ...

Wandering amidst the colorful chaos of hundreds of VHS cardboard boxes in video stores used to be one of the simple pleasures of life for cinephiles in the '80s and '90s. But unless you live in ...

Records from that time indicate one popular VHS tape chain was known as “the Blockbuster.” The VCR was a finicky technology, however. The machines would often chew up malformed tapes ...