Videocassette recorder

The videocassette recorder, VCR, or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording. Use of a VCR to record a television program to play back at a more convenient time is commonly referred to as timeshifting. VCRs can also play back prerecorded tapes. In the 1980s and 1990s, until the VCR was superseded by the DVD player and PVR, prerecorded videotapes were widely available for purchase and rental, and blank tapes were sold to make recordings.

Most domestic VCRs are equipped with a television broadcast receiver (tuner) for TV reception, and a programmable clock (timer) for unattended recording of a television channel from a start time to an end time specified by the user. These features began as simple mechanical counter-based single-event timers, but were later replaced by more flexible multiple-event digital clock timers. In later models the multiple timer events could be programmed through a menu interface displayed on the playback TV screen ("on-screen display" or OSD). This feature allowed several programs to be recorded at different times without further user intervention, and became a major selling point.

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The Gazette Cedar Rapids 05 Jan 2025
Doubtfire” was released on VHS ... At its end, Tim and his wife receive a videocassette recorded by Carter, in which he commends them for their participation and tells the klutzy Tim that “crews are working round the clock” to repair his screw-ups ... .

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Green Bay Press Gazette 10 Sep 2024
The first patron to use the new space returned a Christmas record album on Jan ... By August 1986, the library offered everything from magazines and videocassette tapes to listening stations for tapes, records, computers, and coin-operated typewriters.

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The Post-Standard 01 Aug 2024
Twilight Sparkle’s Retro Media Library, a wiki site, reports, “At a total of 20 million copies sold, Beauty and the Beast eventually became the best-selling videocassette of 1992 and broke the record for the best-selling videocassette of the year.”.

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The Daily Mail 04 Jul 2024
But half a century ago, in the absence of this luxury, inserting a blank VHS to a videocassette recorder (VCR) to 'record off the telly' really was the only way we could see films and TV later on.

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1962 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books ... 1967 – Six-Day War ... 1975 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format ... ....

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Good morning, Arizona. Here's what our reporters are working on and what you should know before you start your day ... Today in history ... Sony unveiled Betamax, the first home videocassette recorder, or VCR, format to capture video from a television.

VCRs and videotapes still retain their magic for some users

Observer-Reporter 24 Feb 2024
But when those videocassette recorders landed in homes, you could record the programs you wanted to watch even if they clashed with other obligations or even other programs – just pop a blank videocassette into the recorder, and you were set.

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China Daily 18 Jan 2024
So fascinated have I been with their performance that, I must confess, the tape has been reinserted countless number of times into the videocassette recorder and played over and over again at every available opportunity ... .

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Tallahassee Democrat 02 Dec 2023
While serving in the Army, he sold his videocassette recorder for a Yamaha 12-string acoustic and taught himself chords using a guitar songbook by the musician Sting.

What were video salons & why were they so popular in the USSR

Beijing News 10 Oct 2023
Only, instead of a projector, they had an ordinary television set with a small screen connected to a videocassette recorder ... Methodist of the video salon Irina Mentshikova gives out videocassettes, 1988.

What were ‘video salons’ & why were they so popular in the USSR?

Russia Beyond 09 Oct 2023
Only, instead of a projector, they had an ordinary television set with a small screen connected to a videocassette recorder ... Methodist of the video salon Irina Mentshikova gives out videocassettes, 1988.

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... recorded to videocassettes, and were visible from just one work station.

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The Buffalo News 31 Aug 2023
JACK EWING. New York Times ... Until then, cars like the Ford Mustang Mach-E or Chevrolet Bolt will come with technology that may eventually become obsolete, the equivalent of Betamax videocassette recorders. What plugs do electric cars use today? ... ....

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The Scranton Times-Tribune 28 Aug 2023
But they won’t begin selling cars with the Tesla plugs until 2025. Until then, cars like the Ford Mustang Mach-E or Chevrolet Bolt will come with technology that may eventually become obsolete, the equivalent of Betamax videocassette recorders ... ....

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The Keene Sentinel 05 Aug 2023
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