Who watches television tape anymore ? With the rise of ever - higher - definition cyclosis telecasting that you may load up up just about any time and in any place , it ’s in all likelihood safe to assume that there are not a long ton of folks still lugging around a library of VHS tape and the ungainly equipment you ask to play them . The move to more modern forms of television and movie showing may have leftvideocassette record-keeper ( VCRs)primed for burial long ago , and the final nail in the coffin is coming by the end of July — that ’s whenthe only manufacturerknown to still be making the boxful - mold tape histrion will roll the last ones off of its assembly line .
Funai Electric tell its VCRs plainly becametoo expensiveto make , as parts for the machines have become more hard to secure . Still , the troupe moil out 750,000 parallel tape role player last year . ( Mathematically , that ’s about 749,999 more than many masses would have don . ) Although the television - viewing masses have move on to other mediums to catch show and picture , a vivacious community of VHS tapeheads remains around the Earth .
Funai ’s determination is n’t likely to sit well with VHS diehard , whose orientation for analog tape recording in many ways mirrors the late resurgence ofvinyl record . Some obscure tape – particularly those never released in other formats — go for big bucks on the trading market . The end of Funai ’s output rill could produce a similar food market for old videocassette recorder that still work well , and requirement for tech fiddler who can get busted ones up and running again .
