We've been talking a lot about emotional response recently on RedShark with reference to pristine imagery. But it seems that sometimes the worse the footage looks, the better the audience response.

The competition between camcorder formats resembles the election campaign. Each model tries to stake out new turf. The stakes are high for how you choose to save your memories of grandma and the kids.

The App Store is great for recapturing nostalgia from another time and place. Whether you’re melancholy for retro games from the Atari era or catching up with favorite comic books from a misspent ...

How hard would it be to make an app that accurately recreates a VHS camcorder in a smartphone? That's the question the folks at Rarevision asked themselves when they set about making the VHS Camcorder ...

Thomas Worth swears he didn't expect any of this. He never expected that, 10 days after it launched, VHS Camcorder, his goofy $3.99 video app, would be No. 2 on Apple's chart for paid apps, second ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. It can be fun to make something look retro. But who would ...

Get out your Walkman and Macintosh SE, because it's the '80s and we're shooting lots of grainy video. At least that's what we're pretending to do. There's a new app that lets you shoot videos that ...

A new app called VHS Camcorder transforms your mobile device into a bona fide over-the-shoulder camcorder from the '80s. If you're like me, you're probably wondering why anyone would want to ...

Prerequisites for a festive summer picnic include a chilled bottle of chardonnay, a nice pasta salad–and a camcorder. While not nearly as satisfying to the palate as wine or food, a camcorder lets you ...

If you thought home videos from the 80s look crap solely because of the inexplicably horrific fashion sense of the people that appear in them, think again. Sure, the mullet hair-dos, velour shirts, ...