TOKYO -- 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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Like many consumer products, the home videocassette recorder has shrunk a lot over the years, going from carry-on luggage-sized steel boxes weighing 30 pounds or more, to lightweight ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The death of the video recorder came a step closer today when the country's largest electrical chain said it is stopping selling them. The death of the video recorder came a step closer today when the ...

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