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End of VHS Era : Funai will manufacture last recorder this month
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Everything comes to an end. Sanyo branded and manufactured in China recorder won't be longer produced by Funai Electric Company .

    http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO04817850T10C16A7TI1000/

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  • PauloTeixeiraPauloTeixeira

    Getting my first VHS player as a teenager was awesome especially knowing that I was able to buy movies to watch over and over again in my bedroom (There was already a family VCR in the house for the living room). I also used to imitate people doing martial arts moves and would playback the footage in slow motion. It's why I made sure the VCR I got had a jog wheel.

    Fast forward to the PS2 nearing release. I had a Dreamcast that I mostly loved but the one thing I hated was the lack of DVD playback. The fact that the PS2 was both a gaming console and a DVD player was a very big deal to me and so I got it immediately after it got released. I was already good with all the features right away and told some of my friends that you can actually do slow motion with it and the quality is perfect. Some people didn't even know that. Awesome picture quality for playing back movies at normal speed and equally awesome picture quality playing footage back in slow motion.

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    Kung Fu I bet?! (Five Deadly Venoms?)

  • jleojleo

    Before DVDs, I wasted a lot of money on VCD's, mostly kung fu movies from Hong Kong. Most of them were $10-20 each! Sometimes the action was too pixelated. After dumping all my VHS and audio cassettes, now cassettes are making a comeback!

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2016/03/24/forget-vinyl-lets-talk-about-the-cassette-comeback/#49caf84f1723

    Last known VCR maker stops production, 40 years after VHS format launch

    


    While most people prefer the look of modern video digital video over VHS, there is a rapidly growing group of collectors seeking out old tapes. Some of the rarer horror movies are worth as much as £1,500.

    "These are movies that feel too cleaned-up on DVD and Blu-ray, as if they were never meant to look that good," one collector told The Independent. "You can see the mistakes they made and the bad makeup and everything. Watching them on VHS is closer to the old drive-in or grindhouse theatre, the way the director intended it to look."

    


    http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/07/vcr-vhs-production-ends/

  • goannagoanna

    Thanks for letting us know there has still been a VHS VCR in production!

    I suppose the real news is - anybody who's yet to digitise their VHS recordings might do well to test the machine they're intending to use. Chances are that machine suffers from perished rubber, dried out capacitors etc - and repair is unfeasable. One of the last of these new Funai machines might be the answer - and cheaper than using a digitiser service because we all need to review first what we need to get digitised. (BTW, clean tapes first, test for magnetic layer adhesion, etc, etc).

  • jleojleo

    This Toshiba VHD to DVD recorder is still available everywhere. Best Buy, B&H Photo etc. Although I dumped all my VHS stuff, I kept the Toshiba. Some discount electronics stores still had it for $99.

    http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/605584-REG/Toshiba_DVR620_DVR620_DVD_Recorder_VCR_Combo.html

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