Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric, a company that claims to be the last manufacturer of videocassette recorders (VCRs), will manufacture its last VHS player this month.

The VHS player was a kind of technology from the late 20th-century known as a video cassette recorder, or VCR. The device used an electro-mechanical process to display or record audio and video ...

Funai began making videotape players in 1983, and videotape recorders in 1985. The company says they were among its all-time hit products. Last year, Funai made 750,000 VHS machines that played or ...

40 years after the first VHS video cassette recorder ... the ability to record content easily, obsolete. Betamax players, which were the chief competitor of VCRs back in the 1980s, were ...

There was a time when rewinding a movie tape was part of the experience. Before streaming, before DVDs, before even Blu-ray, the video cassette recorder (VCR) w ...

Click Record DVD on the opening splash screen, cue up the VHS on the video player, then click Start recording. When you’re done, click Stop recording. If you don’t find any software bundled ...

offers only a handful of stand-alone VHS recorders on its Web site. "VHS was pretty revolutionary," VHS player collector Andy Hain told Reuters on Monday. "The fact that people take them for ...

As video players became more affordable ... followed by RCA’s entrance into the market with a 240-minute recorder using VHS. These challenges ignited an intense battle within the format war ...