As new formats like DVD, Blu-ray, and now Ultra HD Blu-ray have brought
better picture quality, sound, and room for special features, most people
have moved away from the VCR. As a result, it’s finally time to say goodbye
to the home video progenitor for good.

Funai, the last remaining manufacturer of the VCR, will cease production of
the players by the end of the month, according to Japanese newspaper The
Nikkei (via Anime News Network). The company is citing a declining market
and increasing difficulty in sourcing parts as the reasons behind the decision.

JVC developed the VHS format and began selling the first VCRs in 1976,
while Funai began selling its first models in 1983. Betamax players, a format
developed by Sony, were released in Japan in early 1975 and discontinued
in 2002.

MIKE GRACIA

RCA model CT-100

Mass production of the first RCA Victor television color sets (above) began
on March 25, 1954. The cost…$1,000. It featured a 15-inch tri-color picture 
tube.

Publicity photo of the CT-100 production line, RCA’s first consumer
color receiver.

On November 3, 1911, Swiss race car driver and automotive engineer Louis
Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Company in Detroit with ousted
General Motors founder William C. Durant and several investment partners.

Louis-Joseph "Louis" Chevrolet
(December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941)

William Crapo "Billy" Durant
(December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947)

The first Chevrolet "Classic Six", in 1911 in front of the Chevrolet
Motor Car Company factory in Detroit.

Kellogg’s was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on
February 19, 1906, by Will Keith Kellogg as an outgrowth of his work with his
brother John Harvey Kellogg at the Battle Creek Sanitarium following practices
based on the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The company produced and
marketed the hugely successful Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes and was
renamed the Kellogg Company in 1922.

Will Keith Kellogg
(April 7, 1860 – October 6, 1951)

First Kellogg’s package.