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  2. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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    A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV sources and can play back the recording after rewinding. The use of a VCR to record a television program to play back at a more convenient time is commonly referred to as time shifting.

  3. Video Cassette Recording - Wikipedia

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    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. The VCR format was introduced in 1972, just after the Sony U-matic format in 1971. Although at ...

  4. Video recorder scheduling code - Wikipedia

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    The system is branded as VideoPlus+/ShowView in Europe due to an existing trademark registration for "VCR" by Philips in that continent, and as G-Code (the "G" standing for the system's developer, Gemstar) in Japan because VCR is not a common abbreviation there ("VTR," for videotape recorder, is used instead). Japan initially used the name ...

  5. How digital TV will kill off the VCR - AOL

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    Unless you can pop for a new VCR with a digital tuner or can find. Start transferring your VHS tapes to DVD if you want to watch all of those old movies you have when the nation's analog TV ...

  6. Helical scan - Wikipedia

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    The head drum of a Hi-Fi NTSC VHS VCR; three of the six heads face the reader. The helical path of the tape around the drum can clearly be seen. The same head drum with the rotating portion elevated for clarity The rotating portion of the head drum showing the rotary transformer and three of the six tape heads used in this particular VCR

  7. On-screen display - Wikipedia

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    The Akai VS-2 was the first VCR with an on-screen display, originally named the Interactive Monitor System. By displaying the information directly on the television screen, this innovation eliminated the need for the user to be physically near the VCR to program recording, read the tape counter, or perform other common features.

  8. Video tape tracking - Wikipedia

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    In a video tape recorder, tracking is a calibration adjustment which ensures that the spinning playback head is properly aligned with the helical scan signal written onto the tape.

  9. Commercial skipping - Wikipedia

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    Later, five owners of ReplayTV represented by Electronic Frontier Foundation and attorneys Ira Rothken and Richard Wiebe countersued, asking the federal judge to uphold consumers' rights to record TV shows and skip commercials, claiming that features like commercial skipping help parents protect their kids from excessive consumerism. ReplayTV ...