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Japan-Based Company FUNAI ELECTRONICS Will Stop Making VCRs at the End of July! Thoughts Moving Forward!

Japan-Based Company FUNAI ELECTRONICS Will Stop Making VCRs at the End of July! Thoughts Moving Forward!

Staunch fans of our favorite analog format were met with some historically heartbreaking news yesterday, as confirmed by a Mental Floss UK article. Japan-based consumer electronics company Funai Electric has announced that at the end of this month, they will discontinue manufacturing their VCR units (which were produced in China) due to decline in demand and difficulty finding parts for the machines. At the highest point in their 30-year VCR-making history, Funai (which is known to us here in the States as the brand Sanyo among others) was selling around 15 million VCR units per year, but most recently, their...

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