# Professor Samuel Craig weighs in on the death of the VCR

1 Faculty News July 22, 2016 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/07/22/rip-to-the-vcr/) -- "'It became a cash cow for them and generated lots and lots of revenue,' said [C. Samuel Craig](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/c-samuel-craig), director of the entertainment, media and technology program at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'And then it slowly began to disappear, and it was supplanted by the DVD.'"

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