Dead is an overused word. But in the case of tape, it really has gone to meet its maker. It has shuffled off its mortal coil. It is an ex-acquisition medium. Traditionally, technology only died if you ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two: one that plays ...

Despite enormous technological advances, most TV-news operations continue to use videotape, a medium that predates the Internet age by decades. But early next year, Channel 4 will leave the clunky ...

UK high street electronics retailer Dixons has pressed eject on the video cassette recorder. With DVD players outselling VCRs by a ratio of 40 to one -- and DVD recorders rapidly heading towards the ...