The latest format war is all the rage these days as things really start to heat up. Everyone loves to compare it to Beta vs VHS, but what about the last Video Disc format war? No this isn't the first ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In an alternate universe, movie buffs have Citizen Kane on vinyl. In that ...

Replay: It's long been a dream to have one home video format to rule them all. Unfortunately everybody has the same idea, and so format wars are inevitable. Phil Rhodes takes a further look at the ...

The history of media storage is a journey of multiple formats and interesting ideas. From the early days of film to the modern day solid state drive media storage has come in many different forms.

Television in the early 1960s: In the pioneering country of electronic moving image entertainment, the United Kingdom, the BBC broadcasts two TV programs, the private ITV one. In the USA, there were ...