The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and LaserDisc: . Funai Electric, a Japanese electronics company that may be the last VCR-maker in the world, announced that it will shut down its VCR ...
A company in Japan only recently realized it was time to stop making Video Home System machines—commonly known as VHS. Japan-based Funai announced earlier in July that it would cease production of its ...
In November 2015, Sony finally announced that it would stop selling Betamax video cassettes. By this time, its battle for dominance with the rival VHS format from rival JVC was already lost. The story ...
I have this love/hate relationship with format wars. No, it’s not reality television versus talk shows, or Top 40 radio against “the best of the ’80s—and more!” The wars I’m thinking about pit ...