The VCR VCR is on track to finish as diskettes computer cartridges eight tracks and reels of photos after the announcement last manufacturer, Japan’s Funai Electric, it will no longer manufacture the device .
the company justified its decision by the sharp drop in sales and stop making later this month its VHS video recorders 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 the production, which led us to make our decision,” he said yesterday a spokesman for the company. “We are the only ones who continue to manufacture video recorders after the recall of Panasonic in 2012,” he said.
Funai had gone on to sell 15 million VHS a year, a figure that in 2015 was only 750,000.
in recent years the company sold most of its VHS in North America, some with the Sanyo brand.
The demand comes mainly from consumers who have large collections of videotapes that can only be reproduced in VCR. A survey a few years ago conducted by Gallup revealed that 58 percent of Americans still had a VCR at home.
The video recorders became immensely popular in the late 1970s and 1980 but were gradually replaced by DVD or streaming services.
Following the decision of Panasonic few years to discontinue VHS ago, Funai was the last company that produced them.
the 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, the spokesman added.
Perhaps Japan has a reputation of being the latest technology for its devices and robots, but many people still opt for old appliances in their daily lives, such as fax or cell phones cover.
cassette tapes are still popular and chains DVD rental still present in the Japanese cities.
Sony had left turn in 2002 production 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 the VHS ended up losing the battle as videotapes were replaced by other digital formats such as DVD, which, in the end, is also being replaced by emission technology continuously.
the first video cassette recorder (VCR) VR-1000 was created by a Russian engineer Alexander Poniátov, and built in 1950 by the American company Ampex.
because of its high cost ($ 50,000 each) the first recorders were used only by the major television networks.
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