VHS is finally dead ? But at least outlived Betamax tapes

Video recorder VHS VCR remaining manufacturer last expires later this month, the 40-year-old analog video tape to finish production recorder

 

 

40-year war between Betamax and VHS is finally over, but at the same time 28 years ago, the victorious video recorder VHS tape only managed to survive the tapes of his rival for 9 months. The last VHS from the production line rolls video recorder at the end of this month.

It is analog tape the end of the era of home video magnetic. FUNAI electric of Japan, the last remaining after Panasonic VCR maker several years crack production ceased, relying on a strong decline in sales and parts supply problems.

"A company that made parts for us, it was very difficult to continue with this turnover do so not for our decision more,-we can do it without that part," FUNAI electric, said that since then with calls from desperate owners of Japanese VCR tape been overwhelmed.

In recent years the largest consumer was marketed the United States videotapes of the company under the Sanyo brand, among others, but sales decreased by 15 m in its peak of 750,000 in the year 2015. Truth be told, most, surprised that they are still being manufactured and sold in all.

But while many left the VHS and VCR modestly, to dead many moons ago, 1999 replaces first DVD recorder and then, personal video recorders (PVRs) as Sky + box at the beginning of the year 2000, about 58 percent of U.S. households had a video recorder yet according to a Gallup poll.

While Betamax Sony could offer better video quality VHS tapes can run more, have been produced cheaper and had produced in 1988, when Sony was to win, the support of the porn industry, that VHS won his first video recorder VHS, avoid, therefore, your own format.

 

 

The size of a Briefcase with a top-loading slot for video tapes, video cassettes VHS was originally designed in the 70s and 80s, creating a whole new industry popular: the modest library.

As VHS of the way of the Dodo huge chains such as Blockbuster video rentals were a brief interruption with the release of the DVD player after winning until the end of the Decade of 90, before he attended the success of streaming video and video-on-demand services from the middle of the year 2000, in.

VHS is not only analogue magnetic tape still in circulation. Analog audio cassettes, appeared for the first time in the year 1962, are always more popular in Japan and a retro resurgence in some countries. One of the few manufacturers of audio-cassette, which remain in the United States, audio subsidiary, reported an increase in 10 m turnover by 20% for the production of the following band in 2014.

But while videos and memories on VHS with new formats, is the last standing magnetic analog recorders for home video now fade to dust.