Time stops for no one, and for no technology. There was a time when you probably preserved family memories by saving them to videotape, but videotape is now completely obsolete. If you’re like a lot ...
We get sent a lot of unnecessary promotional items for video games, but usually they’re like little action figures or pins or stickers. This has to be one of the stranger packages we’ve received in ...
If you have a video recorded on VHS tape in a VCR, you can watch it on your MacBook Pro. Because VHS tapes are prone to damage and deterioration, people sometimes record the video from the output of a ...
This month, the world’s last manufacturer of VCRs will manufacture its last VCR. Sure, you won’t notice that they’re gone. But it’s a good time to remember what they meant when they were here. VCRs ...
ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Like many consumer products, the home videocassette recorder has shrunk a lot over the years, going from carry-on luggage-sized steel boxes weighing 30 pounds or more, to lightweight ...
Eons ago, or at least 40 years ago, there were fewer TV channels than you could count on your fingers and toes and the programming schedule was set by television networks. We all watched TV, but maybe ...
Quick Read Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (VCR) is down 9% year-to-date despite a 230% ten-year return, but Amazon (AMZN ...
It’s a little silly to lament the demise of a technology that has been well-demised for years. But last week’s announcement that production will cease within days at the last Japanese factory ...
As the last VCR factory in Japan closes down production, we take a look at the rise and fall of the videocassette recorder and the culture it created. And now we mark the passing of the videocassette ...
The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and LaserDisc: into the technology graveyard. Funai Electric, a Japanese electronics company that may be the last VCR-maker in the world, announced ...
One way of connecting an old console to a modern TV is by using an RCA to HDMI converter, but do these devices actually make ...