Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric ... Sony created the DVD player in 1994, but the technology did not debut in the U.S. until 1997, due in larger part to copyright concerns ...

If you simply want to watch both DVDs and VCRs using the same media player and TV input, a DVD-VCR combo is what you’re looking for. Still, they’re becoming harder to find, so it’s worth ...

They can do so using VHS/DVD converters, known as "combos" in Japan. Funai will be rolling out such products later this month, the spokesman said. Funai's VCR factory, which is in China ...

Another iconic product looks set to join the technology graveyard as the last-ever VCR player is ... by the likes of DVD and Blu-Ray over the last decade. Despite this, Funai says that it sold ...

According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Funai Electric ... not only because VCR has been superseded by two far superior formats—DVD and Blu-ray—but hard disk-based personal video recorders ...

With a combo player, of course, the process is simpler. Next is the transfer process. Pop a tape into the VCR and a blank DVD+R or DVD+RW (some units only accept one of these formats, so double ...

I've got a decent collection of Disney and other childrens movies on VHS and I can't afford to replace them all with DVD's right now ... that the recent crop of VCR's have poor life expectancies ...

Boasting both DVD and VCR functionality, the unit as a whole is larger than most regular DVD recorders. It's far from an eyesore, but if you've got an older cabinet with pre-cut VCR holes ...

Samsung just got official with its BD-UP5500 HD DVD / Blu-ray combo player days ago at CES, and after swinging by the firm's booth today, we've got a bevy of photographs for those looking intently ...

Last we heard, things degraded from gung-ho to so-so for Samsung on the prospect of going in on a dual-mode device that'd bridge the gap between HD DVD and ... a dual-mode player, but apparently ...

TOKYO, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Japan's Funai Electric Co <6839.OS> will take over Philips' North American DVD, Blu-ray and other audiovisual operations, on top of the Dutch firm's TV business in the ...