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Website. magnavox .com. Magnavox ( Latin for "great voice", stylized as MAGNAVOX or sometimes Magnavox in Australia) was an American electronics company. It was purchased by North American Philips in 1974, [ 1] which was absorbed into Dutch electronics company Philips in 1991. The predecessor to Magnavox was founded in 1911 by Edwin Pridham and ...
Videocassette recorder. 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 ...
Capacitance Electronic Disc. The Capacitance Electronic Disc ( CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records. First conceived in 1964, the CED system was ...
(the magnavox/Phillips unit pulled) I bought Laserdisc. I had only Universal movies as I watched the massive marketing campaign for RCA CED Disc, TV spots, displays everywhere, Hundreds of Movie ...
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.
The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular [ 2] from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. [ 3][ 4][ 5]
Standalone VCR party finally ends, JVC shuts the door as it leaves. darren murph. Updated Mon, Oct 27, 2008 ยท 1 min read. We were fully prepared to start harshing on VHS as a dead-end technology ...
"VCR"-format cassettes in case (left) and on own (right). A full-size CD is shown for scale. Size comparison between a Betamax cassette (top) and a VHS cassette (bottom) The videotape format war was a period of competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog video videocassette and video cassette recorders (VCR) in the late 1970s and the 1980s, mainly involving the ...