VCR - The New Model
With the emergence of the VCR just over 50 years ago to the latest high-tech DVR's of today it is a wonder just how far and how quickly technology has moved on!
The first successful Video Cassette Recorder was the Ampex VRX-1000 introduced to the market in 1956. Priced at $50,000 it could only be afforded by TV networks & TV stations. It wasn't until 1965 that the first VCR intended for home use was introduced (by Sony CV-2000). Other companies followed, pricing their VCR's at around $1000
By the 1990's the VCR was the common format for recording and viewing video having beaten the Sony corporations' Betamax. Although the Betamax model was more technically advanced the VCR was more popular because of the longer recording time, allowing for storage of entire movies or sports matches.
Since the Video Cassette Recorder we have seen the emergence of DVD's. Now we are entering a new era, the era of freeview hard drive recorders. Freeview+ allows users to record on to a hard drive rather than VHS cassettes, saving time and storage space. Visit our online store and find more alternatives to the VCR.
Tvonics has a wide range of DVRs for you to choose from, and if you want, you can go for one of the more advanced models with dual tuners. This new technology works similar to the the VCR’s of old, but they allow you the possibility of recording one station in your freeview channel library, while watching another.
The VCR models that were one the most valuable device in the living room of most homes, were able to do the same up until the launch of the freeview revolution, but once freeview came about, VCR units were unable to monitor more than one digital station which coupled alongside the increasing library of channels available, posed as a problem for the VCR market.
So with the DVR being the new VCR, users can experience a much more developed digital tv journey. Not only with multiple recording and viewing, but previous VCR users can all now have the chance to utilise the more advanced features like pausing live TV, and watching programmes that are still recording.
So why not upgrade your old VCR today and purchase something like the TVonics DVR-FP150 compact DVR unit. For less than £100, exiting VCR users can have a freeview set top box complete with the electronic programme guide and up to 160GB of memory free for you to fill with you favourite movies, films and even music videos, as they happen. VCR technology is now a thing of the past.
