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The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the story of New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. [1] Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1,000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and ...
A typical late-model Philips Magnavox, VHS format VCR A close-up process of how the magnetic tape in a VHS cassette is being pulled from the cassette shell to the head drum of the VCR A videocassette recorder ( VCR ) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV ...
An N1500 video recorder, with wooden cabinet. 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.
VK is a helical scan analog recording videocassette format developed by Akai in the late 1970s, that is capable of recording and playing back black & white (and later color) video in either EIA (a.k.a. RS-170, the 525-line NTSC video standard for North America, Canada, Mexico, & Japan) and CCIR (the 625-line PAL/SECAM video standard for Europe and other parts of the world) systems.
The original Video8 format Video Walkman (GV-9) Sony's first brand extension of the Walkman cassette players were portable Video8 cassette recorders with color LCD displays, released 1989. [8] Video Walkman units for the later MiniDV [9] and Digital8 formats were also released.
Burt Munro was the subject of a 2005 film, The World's Fastest Indian, based on a composite of his Bonneville speed runs. This film depicts a determined old man who, despite facing many difficulties, travels from New Zealand to the USA to test run his motorcycle west of the Great Salt Lake.
The follow-up EIAJ-2 built the take-up reel into the recorder body. In September 1971, Sony introduced the U-matic format, aimed at professional users, which replaced the open reels with a cassette. The next year Philips introduced the Video Cassette Recording format specifically for home users. Over the next five years, a number of companies ...
Many such players can also play additional formats such as CD and VCD. VCR/DVD player combinations were first introduced around the year 1999, with the first model released by Go Video, model DVR5000, manufactured by Samsung Electronics. VCR/DVD combinations were sometimes criticized as being of poorer quality in terms of resolution than stand ...