End of an era: the last manufacturer of videocassette announced it will stop them – Clarín.com

Funai Electric announced it will stop manufacturing VHS VCRs. The company is the only one still producing these teams .

The company, Japanese, justified its decision by the sharp drop in sales . At the end of July will no longer make more VCRs VHS at its plant in China.

“A company that was manufacturing components for us told us it was very difficult to continue manufacturing them with a low level of sales and decided to stop production, which led us to take our decision, “said a spokesman for Funai

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“We are the only ones who continue to manufacture video recorders after the recall of Panasonic in 2012,” said a spokesman.

Funai had come to sell 15 million of these VHS equipment per year, but in 2015 stood only about 750,000 .

In recent years the company sold most their video recorders in North America, some with the Sanyo brand. Demand comes mainly from consumers who have large collections of videotapes that can only be played back on a VCR. A survey a few years ago conducted by Gallup revealed that the 58% of Americans still had a VCR .

The video recorders became immensely popular in the 70s and . 80 but were progressively replaced by DVD and then by streaming services

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Following the decision of Panasonic few years to discontinue VHS cassette players ago, Funai was the last company that produced them.

company has received many calls from Japanese owners of VCR tapes that have not yet copied your recordings wedding or other special to other formats event, said spokesman Funai.

Perhaps Japan has a reputation for being at the forefront in technology for its gadgets and its futuristic robots, but many people still opt for old appliances in their daily lives , such as fax or cell phones with lid.

cassette tapes are still popular and chains DVD rental still present in the Japanese cities .

Sony had left turn in 2002 the production of recorders Betamax and last year announced it would stop making the tapes of this system, the rival VHS, developed by another manufacturer Japanese electronics that eventually became part of JVC years later.

But also VHS ended up losing the battle as the videotapes were replaced by other digital formats such as DVD, which, in the end, also are being replaced by the

Source streaming technologies: AFP

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