Before DVDs and Blu-ray, and before CDs and Walkmans were cool ... although specialized stores still carry old stock of blank tapes. In some households, VCRs are still owned and kept for their ...

Blank CDs were $40 each at the time and could only be recorded once, making them unattractive compared to cheaper rewritable cassette tapes. By 1992, CD recorders were still priced upward of $ ...