AMSTERDAM: Europe's top consumer electronics maker Philips said on Thursday it would have its video recorders made by a Japanese firm and cut 1,000 jobs. amsterdam: europe's top consumer electronics ...

Consumer electronics giant Philips said yesterday that it would stop selling the venerable video cassette recorder, after years of falling popularity of the technology. With DVD technology already ...

The news has been full of reports that the last company manufacturing consumer VCRs will cease making them this year. I think most of us are surprised that the event is only happening now. After all, ...

Mark DeLoura still owns a VCR, but he can't recall the last time he actually videotaped a show. After all, the San Francisco resident has found a replacement to the old analog videotapes -- he has ...

A dusty shelf of home videotapes of your child's early years sparks an idea: If you transferred them to DVD, you might actually watch them once in a while. At minimum you'd be preserving them for ...

Still not worked out how to programme your VCR? With the high-tech alternatives around, maybe it's time to forget it: in the past couple of months, Philips and Panasonic have launched the first DVD ...

The history of VCRs. The technologies behind the creation of VCRs. The VCR’s eventual decline. In today’s world, we rely primarily on streaming services to watch movies and TV shows at HD resolutions.

The battle lines have been drawn in the war to replace the VCR in your living room. On one side are recordable DVD units and on the other, units that capture video on a hard-disk drive. We checked out ...