In fact, at the time, portable tape recorders were being marketed ... Developed totally independently of the Phillips cassette we know and love, the SANYO cassette was two reels of tape stacked ...

40 years after the first VHS video cassette recorder rolled off the production ... the company sold VCRs under the more familiar Sanyo brand in China and North America. Funai Electric began ...

Funai Electric, the only remaining manufacturer of VCRs, has been producing them in China for Sanyo - which sold ... of VHS rival Betamax video cassette tape recorders in 2002 and stopped ...