Friday, July 22, 2016

Goodbye video cassette recorder (VCR)

VCRs, which were introduced in the 1970s for family entertainment, is finally at the verge of retirement. The powerful entertainment machine is retiring based on the known fact that its usefulness has been taken over by the DVD technology. This is made known the by Nikkei Newspaper, which announced that the last video cassette recorder (VCR) in Japan will be produced by the end of the month. Other companies known for producing VCR have since closed down owing to low patronage.
This goes to show technology evolves and how our lives have been enhanced by it. For me, fond memories of this machine, dates back to my primary school days, when people with this equipment, are revered as elites. I used to walk quite some distance to watch movies uncle’s house, as he was the only known person having such item in those days. His own looks like the one in this second picture.


How time flies; The generations to come would need to visit a museum before they understand what a VCR looks like.
    

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