The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and LaserDisc: into the technology graveyard. Funai Electric, a Japanese electronics company that may be the last VCR-maker in the world ...

As the last VCR factory in Japan closes down production, we take a look at the rise and fall of the videocassette recorder and the culture it created. And now we mark the passing of the ...

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 ...

It is roughly 60 years old. Known to every child of the 1980s and ’90s as the VCR, the machine became a fixture under the television sets in households across the United States, and indeed the ...

The prolonged and foreseeable death of the VCR that was reported last week seemed to spark a wave of denial, grief and disillusionment that only comes with the passing of a much-beloved friend.

Thirty years before SOPA, the MPAA was in Washington, demanding legislative protection from a new and dangerous technology: the VCR. Here's then-MPAA head Jack Valenti, testifying before a House ...

The rise of the home VCR in the early 1980s brought about that last innovation, which resulted in dozens of board games (and eventually toys as well) that shipped with VHS tapes designed to be ...

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 ...

That VCRs were sold at all still comes as something of a surprise, not only because VCR has been superseded by two far superior formats—DVD and Blu-ray—but hard disk-based personal video ...

I NEVER LET GO of my VHS tapes. Long after my VCR gave out, I’ve hung onto movies in the now-antique format, including “The Little Mermaid” in the clamshell collector’s box whose cover ...