OSAKA, Japan — Panasonic has decided to halt domestic production of its VCR, in what is becoming a regular occurrence for Japanese electronics firms to stop selling outdated products. Like the Walkman ...

The video boom of the eighties and nineties had one rather untidy consequence - an unsightly pile of VHS tapes in every living room around the country, most probably full of stuff you might not have ...

Panasonic is covering all of its bases with its new Blu-ray player lineup, everything from a model that includes a built-in VCR for those still semi-caught in the past to one that looks toward the ...

There is little doubt that the future of video recording lies with digital disc-based technology – in the medium term at least – but it is clear that video tape recorders are not going to disappear ...

Blu-ray and VHS together at last -- so crazy it just might work? Probably not, but if you're still clinging to a library of tapes and haven't been able to bring yourself to upgrade or transfer them to ...

Someone at Panasonic must think retro is back in fashion, as the DMR-BR630V – the company's latest Blu-ray and DVR combo deck – also manages to include VHS functionality. Presumably intended for ...

In what's becoming a regular occurrence, a Japanese electronics company has decided to stop selling an outdated product. But what's surprising people is not Panasonic Corp.'s decision to halt ...