It seems VHS will never die, and this is generally welcome, as a lot of good movies aren’t still available on optical discs. In summer 2008, Panasonic released a VHS/Blu-ray combo, followed by Sharp’s ...
Last remaining VHS VCR producer will cease manufacturing recorders at the end of this month, bringing the 40-year-long analogue videotape era to an end The 40-year-war between Betamax and VHS is ...
Manufacturing on the painfully-slow-to-rewind machines will conclude at the end of the month, according to Japanese website Nikkei. Funai Electric, the only remaining manufacturer of VCRs, has been ...
Director Josh Johnson's doc is a love letter to the outdated medium and explores how VHS revolutionized people's relationship with media. By Joshua Stecker Rewind This! Still - H 2013 AUSTIN — While ...
The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla., was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape ...
Funai Electric, the last Japanese company to manufacture VCRs, is shutting down production after 33 years. The company will make its final video recorder this month, before following the rest of the ...
It’s time to bid farewell once and for all to the once precious VCR, well, if you’re one of those few who haven’t yet. The days of the Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) is coming to a quiet end, as the ...
Japanese collectors are an interesting lot. Maybe ten years ago my beloved Studer Revox CD player that I bought in 1985 finally called it quits. The lasers were dying and new ones were unavailable. So ...