VHS制式錄影被淘汰

Recently the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:
パナソニックは、国内向けに販売しているＶＨＳ方式の家庭用ビデオレコーダーの生産を昨年末で終了した。
　１９７７年にＶＨＳ方式の製品を発売したが、約３５年で生産を終えた。
　昨年までＤＶＤとハードディスクが一体となったＶＨＳ方式のレコーダーを中国で生産していた。ＶＨＳでは地上デジタル放送を高画質のまま録画できないため、需要がなくなったと判断した。海外向けには一部生産を続けるという。

(試譯文)
    At the end of last year Panasonic had ended the production of VHS system home video recorders currently sold domestically.

   VHS system products were put on the market since 1977, their production were ended in about 35 years.

   Up to last year the VHS system recorders with DVD and the hard disk were produced in China. Since the VHS could not record the high-definition ground digital broadcasting, it was judged that their demand would come to an end. It was said that their production would be partly continued for overseas markets.

The VHS system in Japan finally comes to an end after being used for 35 years.