VCRs are also sold with double cassette, but with little success.

Some camcorders also integrated a VCR. Most of them used smaller cassette formats, almost 8mm, VHS-C, or MiniDV, although some early models bore size VHS and Betamax original.
New media [edit]

S-VHS format was introduced to give new impetus to the ailing VCR, but did not have sufficient market acceptance, due to high initial prices of players and tapes. For the time JVC had lowered prices of S-VHS machines and tapes, the arrival of new digital video format marked the end of the development of analog tape technology.

For home video recording, became popular personal video recorders (like TiVo, MythTV, Sky + and ReplayTV) and DVD recorders recorder, though only slowly replaced the VCR. Moreover, working with TiVo VCR’s that can be used to store recordings PVR. However, the introduction of recordable DVDs with sufficient recording capacity and the advantage of random access could spell the end of the VCR, especially now that prices are falling.