The Maxell MXCP-P100 is a portable cassette tape player that looks straight out of the 1980s. It also has the old-school ...

See It First of all, you’re going to need something to play the old tapes you’ve got. If you’ve long since got rid of your cassette or VHS player, you’ll have to head to eBay or Craigslist ...

It was a VHS from more than 25 years ago titled "Tyree learns to walk." Filmmaker Jim Mckay only recently watched what was on the tape and saw it showed a baby's first steps.

The device used an electro-mechanical process to display or record audio and video via a thin strip of plastic film known as tape. The production of VHS tapes officially ended in 2008.

If you can see the video playing on your computer, press the record option on the screen and roll the tape on the VHS player. Let it play for as long you want the clip to be.

Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric, a company that claims to be the last manufacturer of videocassette recorders (VCRs), will manufacture its last VHS player this month.