There’s a story over at Quartz about the end of videocassette-recorder production. Ananya Bhattacharya writes that
Japan’s Funai Electronics, which makes its own electronics, in addition to supplying companies like Sanyo, will produce the last batch of VCR units by July 30, Nikkei reported (link in Japanese). The company cites difficulty in obtaining the necessary parts as one of the reasons for halting production.
See, The last VCR will be manufactured this month @ Quartz.
What was once so important to so many has withered in a world of the DVD and Blu-ray. Of course, technologies will come and go, but compelling creative works, of original words and pictures, will prove evergreen, and as desirable a generation from now as a generation ago.