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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on July 22, 2016, 1558 UTC

Title: The Last VCRs Ever Will be Made This Month
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on July 22, 2016, 1558 UTC

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 end of the format as a whole 40 years after it began production.

Full story: http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/vcr-video-cassette-recorder-end-production-1201819406/ (http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/vcr-video-cassette-recorder-end-production-1201819406/)

Title: Re: The Last VCRs Ever Will be Made This Month
Post by: Pigmeat on July 22, 2016, 1856 UTC

And me with a handful of the only 80's vintage VCR's left. I'll be rich!

Title: Re: The Last VCRs Ever Will be Made This Month
Post by: MDK2 on July 22, 2016, 2004 UTC

I have a VHS player I got from Radio Shack in 2002 that had VCR+ Gold. Since we already had a DVD player, the VHS never got much use and consequently still works today, even the rewind function. Ah, the golden age of pre-TiVo technology.

Title: Re: The Last VCRs Ever Will be Made This Month
Post by: Pigmeat on July 23, 2016, 0035 UTC

What's TiVo?

Title: Re: The Last VCRs Ever Will be Made This Month
Post by: MDK2 on July 23, 2016, 0137 UTC

Quote from: Pigmeat on July 23, 2016, 0035 UTC

What's TiVo?

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.  ;D

Title: Re: The Last VCRs Ever Will be Made This Month
Post by: Pigmeat on July 23, 2016, 0429 UTC

Like Grey Poupon, eh?