It's been a long time coming for the VCR. After beating out Betamax and LaserDisc for home viewing dominance in the 1980s, VHS players are going away for good.

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: And now we mark the passing of the videocassette recorder, or VCR. Sure, you may have thought it was already gone. But last week, the Japanese Funai Corporation, the last factory ...

Japan's Funai Electric, which claims to be the world's last VCR manufacturer, says it will cease production of the machines this month. Funai started manufacturing video-cassette recorders in 1983 ...

Technology also facilitates or captures our personal memories — and in turn becomes a proxy for those memories. The VCR and the VHS tapes it plays supplied entertainment at countless sleepovers ...

In 1982, Jack Valenti warned that these little tapes would brutally murder his industry. (Image via Wikipedia) Thirty years before SOPA, the MPAA was in Washington, demanding legislative ...

The VCR’s demise may come as a shock, mostly because many thought it was already dead. But Japan-based Funai Electronic Co. has continued to manufacture the machines even as several generations ...

Children today no longer recognize it, but the VCR, once common in American households, is finally making a goodbye. The Funai Corporation of Japan, the last-known company still manufacturing the ...

The VCR may be dead, but hipster cineastes who fondly recall hulking 1980s machines can still buy last-gasp models to play collectible ‘Star Wars’ tapes. Here’s a guide.

In the 1980s, most VCR games were created especially for children and families. Nightmare deviated from that demographic by incorporating horror video segments for mature viewers (although many of ...

But Blockbuster, Netflix and home media consumption (VCR/DVD/Blu-ray) may never have existed at all in their current form if the content industry had been successful in banning or regulating them.