While VHS won the battle, Beta tapes are rare commodities that do really well at auction. For example, a sealed Superman (1980) Beta tape recently sold for $40,000.

Originally launched in 2015, the preservation program began when a professional team of archivists identified the first 250 rare tapes from a long-held, legacy Vidiots VHS collection, which were ...

Vidiots, northeast Los Angeles’ premier repertory screening venue and cultiest video store, is now aiming to add even more rare titles to its 70,000-plus library of one-of-a-kind movies. The Vidiots ...

Pop Culture News VIDIOTS Launches Major Rare VHS Preservation Initiative Preserving Public Access to Film, One Tape at a Time! Written by Jason Price on July 23, 2025 ...

Do you miss the days when finding a movie to watch meant browsing the local video store, hoping that you'd stumble across some rare gem? Alamo Drafthouse sure does. After amassing collections from ...

The first pre-recorded high-definition movies officially hit retail shelves of The Good Guys stores in the D-VHS cassette format last week, with four select titles from DreamWorks SKG, Twentieth ...

D-VHS is the only prerecorded format now capable of reproducing full high-definition picture quality. The introduction of the new digital format has sparked criticism from some studios, notably ...

IndieWire shares the exclusive details on the initiative, the ultimate goal of which is to preserve a collection of thousands of culturally significant and rare titles from Vidiots’ VHS archive ...