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 ...

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 ...

Gwenno told NPR The video was made using a variety of lo-fi methods of manipulation including chewed-up VHS tapes and the randomised erasure of digital memory. The end result is a bright ...