Video Cassette Recording
Videos
Video Cassette Recording is an early domestic analog recording format designed by Philips. It was the first successful consumer-level home videocassette recorder system. Later variants included the VC
An N1500 video recorder, with wooden cabinet.
VCR-format video cassettes with one inside a case (left) and the other on its own (right). A CD is shown for scale.
Philips N1702. A VCR-LP recorder.
The rare Grundig SVR4004 machine.
Videocassette recorder
Videos
A videocassette recorder 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 from
Video Cassette Recording
…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 (SV) formats. The VCR format was introduced in 1972, just after the Sony U-matic format…
A typical late-model Philips Magnavox, VHS format VCR
Not all video tape recorders use a cassette to contain the videotape. Early models of consumer video tape recorders (VTRs), and most professional broadcast analog videotape machines (e.g. 1-inch Type C) use reel to reel tape spools.
Top-loading cassette mechanisms (such as the one on this VHS model) were common on early domestic VCRs.