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  2. Video Cassette Recording - Wikipedia

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    Video Cassette Recording (VCR) is an early domestic analog recording format designed by Philips. It was the first successful consumer-level home videocassette recorder (VCR) system. Later variants included the VCR-LP and Super Video (SVR) formats. The VCR format was introduced in 1972, just after the Sony U-matic format in 1971. Although at ...

  3. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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    A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV sources and can play back the recording after rewinding. The use of a VCR to record a television program to play back at a more convenient time is commonly referred to as time shifting.

  4. VHS - Wikipedia

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    S VHS Recorder, Camcorder & Cassette. VHS (Video Home System) [1] [2] [3] is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

  5. VCR/DVD combo - Wikipedia

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    Samsung SV-DVD440, a combo DVD player and VCR unit introduced to consumers in 2004. A VCR/DVD combination, VCR/DVD combo, or DVD/VCR combo, is a multiplex or converged device that allows the ability to watch both VHS tapes and DVDs. Many such players can also play additional formats such as CD and VCD.

  6. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    A year later, this method is introduced in the United States. The car radio top model "Mexico" from Becker for the first time to an FM area (in mono) and an automatic tuning. 1954 RCA developed for the first apparatus for recording video signals on magnetic tapes. 22 km magnetic tape are needed per hour.

  7. Videotape - Wikipedia

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    A 14-inch reel of 2-inch quad videotape compared with a modern-day MiniDV videocassette. Both media store one hour of color video. The first commercial professional broadcast quality videotape machines capable of replacing kinescopes were the two-inch quadruplex videotape (Quad) machines introduced by Ampex on April 14, 1956, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago.

  8. Videotape format war - Wikipedia

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    "VCR"-format cassettes in case (left) and on own (right). A full-size CD is shown for scale. Size comparison between a Betamax cassette (top) and a VHS cassette (bottom) The videotape format war was a period of competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog video videocassette and video cassette recorders (VCR) in the late 1970s and the 1980s, mainly involving the ...

  9. Longitudinal Video Recording - Wikipedia

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    The first home VCRs to become widely available were the Sony U-Matic system in 1971 and Philips VCR system, released in 1972. However, the first system to be successful with consumers was Sony's Betamax in 1975. This was quickly followed by the competing VHS (Video Home System) format from JVC, and later by Video 2000 from Philips.