Friday, July 22, 2016

Last Manufacturer stops production: Nobody builds more VCR – n-tv.de NEWS


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 Friday, 22 July 2016

 
 
 


 
 Who is now younger than 20 years old who thinks the term VHS at an educational institution. All other know that VHS is the great age of video stores and movie nights. Now in Asia the last VCR is rolled off the line.

 


 
 

The world’s last manufacturer of video recorders, Funai Electric in Japan, sets the production. The fact that a trader it had “judged to be difficult” to continue to provide a component despite small numbers, have led the company to this decision, said a company spokesman. Funai presented accordingly in the past year still 750,000 VCR to play VHS tapes ago – beginning of the millennium, there were still 15 million

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“We were the only manufacturers of video recorders, following the withdrawal of Panasonic 2012″, said the Funai spokesman. The Japanese company was finished in China, most recorders were sold in the US, especially under the brand Sanyo. The last VHS tapes (Video Home System) had been prepared of 2002. The video recorder of Funai were bought about by people who wanted to play her old recordings on magnetic tape yet.

The first VHS VCR was brought in 1976 by the Japanese manufacturer JVC to market. From about 1980 the system standard in Europe, after it had prevailed over Betamax from Sony and VCR / Video2000 Grundig. From about 2000, the analog magnetic tape was peeled from the DVD.

  Source: n-tv.de
 


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