Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funai Electric, a Japanese consumer electronics company, will end production of VHS videocassette recorders (VCRs) at the end of ...

OUR LIVING ROOMS (WHTM) — It was the first home video recording technology to hit the market. A bad guess about how it would be used allowed other systems to supplant it, but it would find use in the ...

Years after the arrival of Netflix and the fall of Blockbuster Video, we are finally poised on the edge of a world without videocassette recorders.Funai Electric, the last company known to make 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 ...

Mark DeLoura still owns a VCR, but he can't recall the last time he actually videotaped a show. After all, the San Francisco resident has found a replacement to the old analog videotapes -- he has ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The videocassette recorder that revolutionized home entertainment by allowing television audiences to capture their favorite shows on tape and watch them at ...

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 ...

TOKYO — The clunky videocassette recorder is going the way of floppy disks, eight-track tapes and camera film as the world's last manufacturer ends production of the once booming home-video technology ...