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title: "When was the last VCR manufactured?"
description: "Funai of Japan stopped, the last manufacturer in the world, July 2016. What happened, why it has not happened since, and whether it plausibly could again."
url: https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/vcr/
site: "At One Place"
---

# When was the last VCR manufactured?

**When was the last VCR manufactured?: July 2016**

Funai of Japan stopped, the last manufacturer in the world

Funai was still making around 750,000 units a year as late as 2015, mostly for a shrinking market of people replacing broken machines. It cited a shortage of parts and of anyone left who could make them. VHS had beaten Betamax in the 1980s despite being technically inferior, largely on recording length and licensing terms — the standard example of the better format losing.

- **What:** Funai of Japan stopped, the last manufacturer in the world
- **When:** July 2016
- **Category:** Technology that stopped
- **Could this change?:** Not in any foreseeable way. The event is closed.

## Technology that stopped

| Question | When |
| --- | --- |
| When was the last Boeing 747 delivered? | 31 January 2023 |
| When did Microsoft Office last change its default font? | 2023 |
| When was the last telegram sent? | 15 July 2013 |
| When did the last typewriter factory close? | 2011 |
| When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed? | 30 December 2010 |
| When did analogue television end in the United States? | 12 June 2009 |
| When did Concorde last fly? | 24 October 2003, with the last flight of all on 26 November 2003 |

> This page gives a date and never a "years ago". These pages are built as static files, so a computed interval would freeze at build time and quietly become wrong — which on a reference site is worse than making the reader do the subtraction.

## Common questions

### When was the last VCR manufactured?

July 2016 — Funai of Japan stopped, the last manufacturer in the world.

### What happened?

Funai was still making around 750,000 units a year as late as 2015, mostly for a shrinking market of people replacing broken machines. It cited a shortage of parts and of anyone left who could make them. VHS had beaten Betamax in the 1980s despite being technically inferior, largely on recording length and licensing terms — the standard example of the better format losing.

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