The VHS player was a kind of technology from the late 20th-century known as a video cassette recorder, or VCR. The device used an electro-mechanical process to display or record audio and video ...

In 2001, retail DVDs topped VHS sales for the first time, capturing $4.6 billion of an annual $16.8 billion buying-and-rental market. However, only 25% of homes owning DVD players in 2001, and VHS ...

Then, the DVD and DVD players came along. VHS tapes stopped being produced in 2008, and Panasonic stopping selling VCRs in 2012. Blockbuster went out of business, and then Netflix and other ...

Funai has a long history with the VHS format and VCRs. In 1980, it launched the CVC Player, the first ever compact cassette recorder, which attempted to compete with the more popular VHS and ...

Made by JVC in the late seventies the VHS (Video Home System) found competition in Sony’s Betamax system, but beat its competitor to become the standard option for watching films, TV shows and ...

The VCR gained mass appeal in its early years as the first technology that allowed viewers to watch programming on their own schedule at home, whether taped from the TV or rented at a store.. Sony ...