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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 ...
I've been looking at buying a DVD/CD player recently, and today went by Best Buy to see what they had. Perusing their stock line, I came apon this DVD/VCR combo made by Samsung, called the DVD-V1000.
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 ...
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 ...
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 not only because VCR has been superseded by two far superior formats—DVD and Blu-ray—but hard disk-based personal video recorders ...
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 ...
Nielsen Media Research said that in the third quarter of 2006, 81.2 percent of US homes possessed a DVD machine compared with 79.2 percent owning a video cassette recorder (VCR). "This study shows ...
Although we're huge fans of convergence around here -- i.e. packing as many functions as possible into a single device -- our love of feature-creep has never extended to VCR / DVD combo units ...
The Addonics Zebra family joins the Hi-Def venture with the release of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD combo player. The multiple functional optical drive also supports legacy DVD, DVD DL, CD and burns DVD±R ...
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 ...