Shocking news out this week that Japan's Funai Electric (who are apparently the last manufacturers of VCRs) will make their last VHS player this month.
I can't believe that up until now they were still making them!
The company announced they will cease to manufacture them because demand has significantly decreased and they only sold 750,000 last year. That means three-quarters of a million people bought a VCR last year! VHS tapes were a massive part of my childhood.
One of my favourite places to visit when I was younger was my aunty's house because she had a whole cupboard full of the clunky black things.
I also remember the struggles we faced back then when you wanted to keep a video so you took the tag off the front (meaning it couldn't be recorded over) only to find your sneaky sister had put cellotape over the hole and recorded her favourite programme over the top, or the heads of your machine got dirty and the picture would roll its way right off the screen.