A company in Japan only recently realized it was time to stop making Video Home System machines—commonly known as VHS. Japan-based Funai announced earlier in July that it would cease production of its ...

As evidenced by the success of properties like Ready Player One and Stranger Things, we are currently smack dab in the middle of nostalgia boom for a certain era of films and television. Thanks to the ...

WTF?! Many people have some ancient VHS cassettes lying around their homes or in storage. Given that the format died out well over a decade ago and the world's last VCR was made in 2016, most of them ...

Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric, a company that claims to be the last manufacturer of videocassette recorders (VCRs), will manufacture its last VHS player this month. Funai, ...

WASHINGTON — Kids are asking, “What is this thing?” to a piece of technology, but it’s not an 8-track player, first-edition Apple computer or larger-than-life cellphone. A new viral video from the ...

The video store, as it is nostalgically remembered, looks like a record shop, or a hookah parlor. Staffed by scruffy burners or neo-hippies who “really know their stuff,” splayed with shelves at all ...

The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and LaserDisc: into the technology graveyard. Funai Electric, a Japanese electronics company that may be the last VCR-maker in the world, announced ...