Most of us used to have humongous videotape libraries at home. With the advent of the DVD era, sadly, we had to let go our bulky tapes because of how space they took up. Videotapes have a certain aesthetic quality that discs can hardly beat, though.
However, did you know that the videotapes that we’re used to could have looked slightly different? In the late 1970s and 1980s, the so-called videotape format war raged between the Video Home System (VHS) and Betamax format videotapes and recorders. VHS won, but sadly, it’s now being forgotten.