Video Cassette Recorder
date: label: date made
content: 1977-09-19
name: label: maker
content: RCA Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Engineers began to develop magnetic recorders for video use in the early 1950s and Ampex produced the first commercial unit in 1956. Twenty years of further refinement resulted in miniaturized components and several types of video recorders practical for home use. The Video Home System or “VHS” format was jointly developed in Japan by Japan Victor Company (JVC) and Panasonic.
label: Description (Brief)
content: VHS cassette were originally designed for two hours of programming although this was later lengthened to four hours by slowing the tape speed and sacrificing some of the image resolution. This model VBT200 machine is unusual in that it features a top-loading cassette, most VHS machines used a front-loading design that allowed for easier placement in a video rack or entertainment cabinet. The VHS format was challenged in the market for about ten years by a rival format, the Sony Beta. Ultimately VHS became the defacto standard for home video recording until it was superceded by an optical format in the late 1990s, the digital versatile disk or “DVD.”
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Magnetic Recording
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content: Communications
label: Exhibition
content: Object Project
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Marcel C. LaFollette
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0140.01
label: serial number
content: 7392FM229
label: accession number
content: 2007.0140
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0140.01
label: model number
content: VBT200
objectType: label: Object Name
content: video recorder
label: Object Name
content: recording device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 19 in x 16 in; 10.16 cm x 48.26 cm x 40.64 cm