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
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.
Philips N1500 video recorder from the early 1970s
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
Videocassette recorder
…developed a home video cassette format specially made for a TV station in 1970 and available on the consumer market in 1972. Philips named this format "Video Cassette Recording" (although it is also referred to as "N1500", after the first recorder's model number). The industry boomed in the 1980s as more and more customers…
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.