The Videocassette Recorder, a piece of technology already so obsolete you would be forgiven for not realizing it hadn’t died long ago, finally kicked it for good last Thursday, when Funai Corporation of Japan, the last known VCR manufacturer on the face of the Earth, announced it would cease production by the end of July. According to the New York Times, a company spokesperson said Funai will keep on selling VCRs “though its subsidiary until inventory runs out and will provide maintenance services as long as it can.”
I’m kinda sad
RIP you served us well.
Good night, sweet prince.
The importance of the VCR can not be overestimated. We could stop film and television for the first time! We could fast forward over the stupid parts! We could rewind and watch the good parts as many times as we wanted! We could stop and stare at the hot guys! We could watch what we wanted to watch on our own schedule! We could watch in private -we got TV out of the living room! We could VID. We could share film and video through double-taping – we could pimp people into our fandoms! THESE WERE NOT THINGS YOU COULD DO BEFORE THE VCR, KIDS. THE VCR – which, despite this headline, only really became available commercially in the late 70s, early 80s – changed EVERYTHING for FANDOM. ILU VCR.
In Memoriam: The VCR, 1956 – 2016
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