At the time of all-digital, that may be hard to believe but the video continued to be produced in Japan. Not for long though as the last manufacturer, the company Japan’s Funai, will definitely stop the production of these devices that we all used some years ago.
The VHS will not be made
it is therefore finished VHS VCRs, which had begun to appear in homes in the middle of the 70′s the digital age, YouTube, Netflix and others, the VCR market was, however, not closed . Funai, a Japanese manufacturer, the latter producing these devices were still sold 750,000 units last year, mostly in China. However, it’s the end of the video to clap after the announcement from the manufacturer to stop production by the end of July.
“ A our suppliers found it difficult to continue manufacturing a component for such a small volume, which has led us to make this decision “and explained Funai. More than 900 million of these devices will be sold worldwide. In the early 2000s, the Japanese manufacturer flowed 15 million copies every year.
A revolutionary device
From the beginning of the market in the second half of the 1970s Sony and JVC are at war. The first wish to impose its Betamax technology while the second focuses on VHS. This will ultimately VHS will become the standard. In the late 90s and early 2000s, 93% of American households and 80% of French households were equipped with a VCR.
Then the arrival of DVD players in 2002 will gradually ousted VCRs whose sales will then cease to decline. “ This is a slice of life that disappears, a marker of time passing “, said co-founder of the company and consumer Observatory, Philippe Moati in “Le Parisien”, adding “ When he returned in homes, it was an event because, with him, we no longer have to watch TV at the same time as the others. It is a new means of control that opens the way for the synchronization of social rhythms, it’s the end of the high mass of the Sunday night movie “.
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