In this week’s Flashback Friday Mark Ferree takes us back to 1987, for a look at one of the first VHS tapes to contain ... there’s a commercial at the beginning of it.

This is a VHS tape which works in standard VHS players and offers you all the goodness that VHS offers, like up to 512 lines of PAL video and hard-coded ads and subtitles, but also is restricted ...

The skirmish between Betamax and Video Home System (VHS ... commercial videotape players became affordable to the general public that the war erupted. Sony was convinced that its Betamax tape ...