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quote:According to the company — which said in the statement, “We are the last manufacturer” of VCRs “in all of the world” — 750,000 units were sold worldwide in 2015, down from millions decades earlier. Huh, I wouldn't have expected the demand to still be so high in 2015. I wonder how long until VCRs become some kind of rare, expensive piece of retro gadgetry? It'll be kind of funny if they eventually command huge prices like so many old game consoles do now.
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It seems like VHS tapes lose fidelity upon further rewatchings pretty easily. I found this out the hard way when buying some older Disney animated movies on VHS a while back. I imagine that has something to do with the mechanism required to read the contents of the cassette. As far as I can tell, the only really stable data storage method today is flash memory which pretty much never degrades.
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Blue Train posted:tape is still the best backup medium and flash has limited number of write cycles plus like a decade lifespan iirc Really? It thought that if you never re-wrote data to a flash drive, it would last more or less indefinitely. Re-writing it shotens it's life span quite a bit though.
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