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Japanese electronics company Funai is pulling the plug on the production of video cassette recorders. It has been the only remaining firm making these devices, but now an era lasting decades comes to ...

GRAEME COUSINS returns – remote control in hand – to the golden age of VCR to attempt to record an unscheduled episode of Different Strokes ... but he can’t for the life of him find a space.

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 ...

The news has been full of reports that the last company manufacturing consumer VCRs will cease making them this year. I think most of us are surprised that the event is only happening now. After all, ...

Funai Electric, a Japanese consumer electronics company, will end production of VHS videocassette recorders (VCRs) at the end of July, according to Japanese newspaper Nikkei. This will also mark the ...

Japanese electronics maker Funai Electric is pulling the plug on the world's last video cassette recorder. A company spokesman confirmed on Monday that production will end sometime this month. He said ...

Many new technologies are born with a bang: Virtual reality headsets! Renewable rockets! And old ones often die with a whimper. So it is for video-cassette recorders, or VCR, that once-revolutionary ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics maker Funai Electric Co. says it’s yanking the plug on the world’s last video cassette recorder. A company spokesman, who requested anonymity citing company practice, ...

There isn’t much to miss about old-school VHS tapes. They are fuzzy, show static, have bad audio, and are generally difficult to navigate around — remember having to hold down the button on the VCR to ...

I grew up with video cassette recorders (VCRs). I still remember rushing off to the the video store to hire the latest movie, hoping that there was at least one copy still on the shelf that didn’t ...

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