It turns out that a Japanese company called Funai Electric is still making the videocassette recorder (VCR). The company recently claims that it will stop making the retro video recorder’s by the end of this month, after 30 years of production. The decision comes after selling only 750,000 VCRs last year, down from a peak of 15 million VCRs… Continue reading World’s Last VCR Company Will End Production This Month
Tag: Sony Corporation
Historic Battle Between VHS and Betamax
Bill Hammack the Engineer guy explains to us the historic videotape battle between JVC VHS and Sony Betamax in the late 70’s and early 80’s, and why Betamax failed to compete with VHS. Check out the video below.
Sony Unveils PlayStation 4 Video Game Console
Sony Corporation has unveiled its PlayStation 4 (PS4) at the E3 2013, electronic entertainment trade show in Los Angeles. It came hours after Microsoft revealed that its new XBox One games console, which is set to launch in November. The PS4 will feature an 8-core 64-bit x86 Jaguar CPU built by AMD; a Radeon GPU comprised of 18 compute… Continue reading Sony Unveils PlayStation 4 Video Game Console