Den här månaden sätts det definitivt stopp för en teknisk lösning som säkert många inte visste att den fortfarande existerade – VHS-bandspelaren.
Japanska Funai Electronics har fram till nu fortfarande tillverkat bandspelare men upphör nu med tillverkningen.
VCRs were launched about 40 years ago. With the rise of DVDs, Blu-ray and streaming services like Netflix, theyve become completely obsolete. At its peak, Funai sold 15 million units of the home video system, Last year, it reported 750,000 in sales. Excluding hardcore fans, demand for VCRs is virtually nonexistent. Already theres at least one generation that likely doesnt know the joy of having a separate device dedicated to rewinding your tapes because that function ceased to work on the VCRor the pain of being charged a fee for failing to return a rental tape fully rewound. Be kind rewind.
