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A device for recording and playing back
moving pictures and sound on cassettes.
The first commercial VCR was launched 1956
for the television broadcasting industry,
but from the late 1970s cheaper models
developed for home use, to record broadcast
programmes for future viewing and to view
rented or owned video cassettes of
commercial films, or privately recorded
video footage. Video recording works in the
same way as audio tape recording, the picture
information is stored as a line of varying
magnetism, or track, on a plastic tape
covered with magnetic material. There are a
number of different standards of video
cassette that are available now or previously
available thay include: vhs, betamax,
betacam, video2000, hi8, vhs-c, super vhs-c,
and super vhs.
Subject by: Vince Pike