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Thomas Worth swears he didn't expect any of this. He never expected that, 10 days after it launched, VHS Camcorder, his goofy $3.99 video app, would be No. 2 on Apple's chart for paid apps, second ...
The first round of compact, 3-pound VHS-C camcorders that showed up on dealers shelves last fall were all the identical unit, manufactured by JVC (as the GR-C7) and also sold under the brand names of ...
How hard would it be to make an app that accurately recreates a VHS camcorder in a smartphone? That's the question the folks at Rarevision asked themselves when they set about making the VHS Camcorder ...
Although not openly discussed at its recent dealer meetings, JVC has quietly returned to the Super VHS camcorder business with two models that use the ET (Extended Technology) recording system. JVC ...
In our Apps of the Year series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for our favorite apps of 2015. As technology advances forward, nostalgia becomes more valuable. Combine them both and ...
We've been talking a lot about emotional response recently on RedShark with reference to pristine imagery. But it seems that sometimes the worse the footage looks, the better the audience response.
The App Store is great for recapturing nostalgia from another time and place. Whether you’re melancholy for retro games from the Atari era or catching up with favorite comic books from a misspent ...
Get out your Walkman and Macintosh SE, because it's the '80s and we're shooting lots of grainy video. At least that's what we're pretending to do. There's a new app that lets you shoot videos that ...
Camcorders were once considered a rare luxury, and there were only a few models from which to choose. Now there are dozens of models for everyone, ranging from no-frills to semiprofessional. (The ...
Break out the New Coke and slide on your favorite pair of ankle warmers: The new VHS Camcorder app for iPhone is here to make the video you shoot with your handset look like you recorded it back in ...
If you thought home videos from the 80s look crap solely because of the inexplicably horrific fashion sense of the people that appear in them, think again. Sure, the mullet hair-dos, velour shirts, ...
There aren’t many fathomable reasons to filter your crystal-clear smartphone’s camera to look like a messy, tracking-riddled VHS-style camcorder. For ‘90s parties, maybe. Or if you’re making a movie ...