I love when a big company announces their product to be dead - years after the market has declared it so and moved on. Today, the retro/now-officially retro technology is the LaserDisc. Gizmodo:
Pioneer had continued to build players long after the format had been declared dead, largely because of the large LD collections that many Japanese customers had built during the years that the format’s popularity soared (comparitively) in that country.
Here’s some more on the format.