Japan's Funai Electric, which claims to be the world's last VCR manufacturer, says it will cease production of the machines this month.Last year, Funai sold 750,000 units, and found it was getting harder to find the parts to make VCRs.
Japan's Funai Electric, which claims to be the world's last VCR manufacturer, says it will cease production of the machines this month.Last year, Funai sold 750,000 units, and found it was getting harder to find the parts to make VCRs.
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Does anyone still make Beta Max? Got a shitload of porn I'd like to watch.
How in the hell did they sell 750,000 VCR's last year?
Originally Posted by Buck Nasty
Lots of people have old school vhs family home videos they recorded with an older camcorder that they still want to play. They aren't the type of people to get a unit to convert them to another format.
Then you have older people still wanting to watch their older porn collection.
These people could just go on ebay to buy a used vhs unit, go find them at garage sales, craigslist,etc. but some people don't think like that so they just waste top dollar on old ass technology.
I still have a shit ton of old VHS movies.
Thousands of old movies haven't even been released on any newer formats.
SAVE THE VCR!
forcing krypt to learn how to record his dads arabic mtv that he jerked off to in 2003 would have probably made him a better person
losing vhs is literally obamas legacy
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Being nostalgic, This kind of stuff makes me sad in a couple of ways. My dad spent a big part of his working career fixing vcr's, camcorders tv's etc. I swear to God, back in the day if you had a VCR and had a problem...no matter what it was, he would probably ask you the make/model of the machine and what the problem was. He could then, without even looking at the machine, narrow down with pinpoint accuracy and tell you exactly what the deal was and what you might be looking at costwise to fix it. A VCR whisperer. He did the same for lots of other electronic equipment as well.
On a completely different note, I have a shitload of VHS tapes that i sooner or later need to convert somehow. Home movies i acquired from my parents after they passed plus some of my own family videos. All priceless stuff.
A few years back, I bought a cheap converter from walmart for about $160 i think it was. I only went this route because i couldn't find much else at the time, and i was tasked to make a compilation video of the home movies for their funerals. Unfortunately, I could never really get it to work right and then soon after it took a complete dump.
I never revisited this task since, but due to unavoidable environmental conditions, I have to find something viable soon to convert the tapes.
I realize that tech advances for better or worse and whether we like it or not, but it still sucks that options are becoming so limited from things like this that we used only a short time ago.
Man, this shit makes me feel old.
Another era come & gone.
There was a time when there were video stores everywhere. Like damn dollar stores now.
Neighbor gave me a tape. Didn't have a vcr so got one at the pawn shop. 20 bucks i think. One of those top load deals if anybody remembers those. Back to the Future was the tape. Laid on the couch drinking beer watching the movie on a Saturday morning. Got tight of cash little later on. Took it back to the pawn shop & got 10 bucks for it. Oh well.
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