Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month

Re:Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month by amyjess on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:35PM (#12132707)

Which is still a bizarre claim. If anything is "the vinyl of analog video recording", it's actual film on reels, not videotape. It's more accurate to say that VHS is the compact cassette of analog video recording.

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Re:Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month by eon1 on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @09:39PM (#12133981)

Wouldn't that be closer to the reel-to-reel of analog video recording? (..which is also making a somewhat more understated comeback)

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Re:Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month by bitJericho on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @06:28PM (#12133025)

Cassettes are making a comeback too

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Re:Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month by __david__ on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @10:23PM (#12134186)

Yeah, I don't get that either. All the "convenience" of tape and it sounds crappy, too!

It can't just be nostalgia—my first portable playback device was a Sony Walkman and I can't ever imagine wanting to use one again.

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Re:Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month by voltagex_ on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:24AM (#12135122)

TechMoan on YouTube has a great video on cassette tapes - granted he's got thousands and thousands of dollars worth of audio equipment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA

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