Time has not been kind to VHS — Harvard Gazette

Time has not been kind to VHS — Harvard Gazette

Arts & Culture Time has not been kind to VHS Video by Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer April 3, 2026 5 min read As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … baking? Before streaming, before Blu-ray, and before DVDs, the VHS videocassette was the king of video. First launched in Japan in 1976, the format, …