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Despite the onset of the recession and a sharp fall in new car sales (with fewer than 1,600,000 new cars being sold in 1991 compared to the record of more than 2,300,000 in 1989), Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK's car plant at Sunderland returns a profit for the first time, making £18,400,000 this year.
In 1991, BBC Video was the number-one video label in the UK when it sold more prerecorded videotapes, by value as well as by unit count, than any other company, even all of the Hollywood studios combined.
3 October – The 1991 Rugby World Cup begins in England. 9 October – The first Sumo tournament to be held outside Japan is hosted at the Royal Albert Hall in London. 17 October – £1million worth of cannabis is found near London, prompting the arrest of six people in the West Midlands
"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 ...
The RCA unit was designed by Matsushita and was the first VHS-based VCR manufactured by a company other than JVC. It was also capable of recording four hours in LP (long play) mode. The UK received its first VHS-based VCR, the Victor HR-3300EK, in 1978. [30] Quasar and General Electric followed-up with VHS-based VCRs – all designed by ...
1991 events in the United Kingdom by month (12 C) 1991 disestablishments in the United Kingdom (9 C, 27 P) 1991 establishments in the United Kingdom (10 C, 161 P)
This is a list of films released by Anchor Bay Entertainment on home video, DVD, and Blu-ray.Formed as the result of a split between Video Treasures and Starmaker Entertainment in 1995, Anchor Bay began releasing films on VHS and DVD in 1997, and has since built a catalog of over 300 releases.
The opening episode of the second season of Twin Peaks makes its UK debut on BBC2 ... (1981, 1991–1992, 1994, 1996, 2003–2008) 14 October – Pebble Mill (1971 ...