Rip The Vcr, A Death So Overdue It Should Come With Late Fees

The Washington Post, Denver Post: Movies
Fri, 07/22/2016 - 4:58pm

The videocassette recorder that revolutionized home entertainment by allowing television audiences to capture their favorite shows on tape and watch them at their leisure will die at the end of the month after a decade-long battle with obsolescence. It is roughly 60 years old. Known to every child of the ’80s and ’90s as the VCR, the machine became a fixture under the television sets in households across America, and indeed the world, as a means for watching movies with terrible resolution, forcing the viewing of grainy family milestones, and recording your grandmother’s daytime melodramas. The VCR’s demise may come as a shock, mostly because many thought it was already dead.

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