In 1980, it launched the CVC Player, the first ever compact cassette recorder, which attempted to ... and haven't stopped until the end of this month. The VCR changed the way media operated ...

The VHS player was a kind of technology from the late 20th-century known as a video cassette recorder, or VCR. The device used an electro-mechanical process to display or record audio and video ...

Both companies agreed a home video recorder should use magnetic tape about a half-inch in width. But Sony founder Masaru Ibuka was more concerned about the size of the cassette itself. He told his ...

Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric, a company that claims to be the last manufacturer of videocassette recorders (VCRs), will manufacture its last VHS player this month.

I grew up with video cassette recorders ... with one VCR declined to 86 per cent. Over the same period, the percentage of Australian metropolitan homes with a DVD player rose from 12 per cent ...

The VCR gained mass appeal in its early years as the first technology that allowed viewers to watch programming on their own schedule at home, whether taped from the TV or rented at a store.