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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/28/2008

The VCR is dead - Boing Boing Gadgets

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h_svideo.jpg After years of dogged resolve, JVC will stop producing standalone VCRs. And there you have it: the last spider crawling out of the eye socket of the skeletal and long-buried video cassette format. Oh, sure, we'll still see video cassettes: there'll always be the niche gadget or two ...

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tradingmarkets.com - 10/27/2008

VJAPF JVC CEASES PRODUCTION OF STAND-ALONE VCRS, MARKING END OF ERA

— tradingmarkets.com — TOKYO, Oct 27, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- VJAPF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating... -- Victor Co. of Japan Ltd. (TSE:6792), better known as JVC, has stopped producing VHS-format videocassette players and will end global sales when existing ... (more) VJAPF JVC CEASES PRODUCTION OF STAND-ALONE VCRS, MARKING ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/27/2008

iPhone 3G could go as low as $99 - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — iphone3g-3.jpg According to market analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham Research, Apple could drop the subsidized price of... the 8GB iPhone 3G to $99 and still manage a 42.3% profit margin: The financial expert estimates that the average, unsubsidized price ... (more) iPhone 3G could go as low as $99 - Boing Boing Gadgets

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/28/2008

Behold, the first screenshot of the Windows 7 desktop - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — leak_windows7.png Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie is up on stage at a developers conference as I type, basically... chewing cud until the embargo lifts later this morning on Windows 7. But reporters and developers are playing around with Windows 7 right now and ... (more) Behold, the first screenshot of the Windows 7 desktop ...

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Stubborn, Old, Crotchety JVC Finally Ceases Standalone VCR Production [Business Sense]
Gizmodo — ... stop immediately. The JVC player was probably only ever intended to service old, supplementary collections of tapes, but my romantic side hopes that at least one person will see this news and think "Aww, shucks, I guess it's finally.time to get one of those Dee-Vee-Dee players." As a comfort to those people, JVC (like others) will continue to offer a few combination players, and at least plans on selling its standalone VCRs until inventory runs out. [TradingMarkets via BBG] ...

JVC Kills VCR Dead
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... more VCR machines, although the company will still be supplying hybrid DVD/VHS boxes. Production lines will be switched over to camcorders, and the word "Rewind" on your remote control will finally become a quaint anachronism. Congratulations, Dad! We mocked you, but in the end you were right. And hey, maybe that old 8-Track you've been holding on to will come in useful one day, too. JVC Ceases Production of Stand-Alone VCRs, Marking End of Era [Trading Markets via BBG] Photo: willceau/Flickr ...

JVC Ends VCR Production
Retro Thing — ... as good as a Tivo, but there are no onerous monthly charges and it works just fine. Our biggest fear at Retro Thing HQ is that the disappearance of the VCR moves us one step closer to a world without a record button, where content is doled out in $1 increments. Say what you will about the quality of VHS tapes, but at least they could be resold and lent to friends. The same can't be said for iTunes. JVC Ceases Production of Stand-Alone VCRs [via the inimitable BoingBoing Gadgets] related: The First Home VCR The World's ...

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Boing Boing — ... at a new home music system from Sonos. John found a rainbow keyboard, a review of Guitar Hero: World Tour, and the rumored motherboard for the rumored Mac Mini II. He thought the Gameboy theme for iPhone was fantastic, and 3-inch figurine speakers, too. He liked liquid bookmarks, saw an icky transparent mouse with an insect in it, depressurized his head with the Ear Pressure Equalizer, and pronounced the final death for VCR. Rob offered more on Lutec's inelegant perpetual motion machine ...