Tokyo, July 22 – The VHS officially enters the graveyard of technology to keep company to the Walkman and the floppy disk. At the end of the month will end ‘in fact produce the last factory VCRs left in the world, the Chinese factory of the company’ Japan’s Funai Electric, who explained the decision by the drastic drop in sales and the difficulty ‘getting tired components from suppliers to work at a loss. ‘A company that made parts for us has informed us that it was too difficult to continue to do so with revenues at this level and have stopped: what’ has led us to the decision, we can not assemble without those components, ‘he explained a spokesperson for Funai, who added that the company’s exchanges in these hours are being pestered by phone calls of desperate Japanese users who have not yet moved on more ‘modern media the contents of their old tapes. Japan are in fact still popular devices considered obsolete, such as fax machines, cassette recorders and the first-generation mobile phones. The production of Betamax, the rival VHS format, and ‘was, for example, suspended from Sony last year soon. Funai was the only company left in the field after the Panasonic retreat a few years ago and sold most of the VCRs in North America, where, according to statistics, even an American on two not have one at home. If the advent of the DVD first and then the stream have already ‘a long time reduced the videocassette market drastically, flourishing in the’ 80s, however, a turnover there yet. Funai last year still placed 750,000 VCRs worldwide. To have fueled demand in recent years had been the wide variety ‘of fans who still owns large collections of films in VHS. .
( 22 July 2016 )
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