VideoCassette Recorder, a device that uses videocassettes for recording and playing back videotapes
Video cassette recorder.

A device used to produce (and play back) analog recordings of video transmissions, using the medium of magnetic tape.
VCR, Device for recording pictures and sound on cassettes or spools of magnetic tape. The first commercial VCR was launched 1956 for the television broadcasting industry, but from the late 1970s cheaper models developed for home use, to record broadcast programs for future viewing and to view rented or owned video cassettes of commercial films.
Video recording works in the same way as audio tape recording: the picture information is stored as a line of varying magnetism, or track, on a plastic tape covered with magnetic material. The main difficulty—the huge amount of information needed to reproduce a picture—is overcome by arranging the video track diagonally across the tape. During recording, the tape is wrapped around a drum in a spiral fashion. The recording head rotates inside the drum.
The combination of the forward motion of the tape and the rotation of the head produces a diagonal track. The audio signal accompanying the video signal is recorded as a separate track along the edge of the tape.
Two videocassette systems were introduced by Japanese firms in the 1970s. The Sony Betamax was considered technically superior, but Matsushita's VHS had larger marketing resources behind it and after some years became the sole system on the market. Super-VHS is an improved version of the VHS system, launched 1989, with higher picture definition and color quality.
A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs; SYN. VCR. + prikaži više

A device for recording and playing back videotapes — called also video recorder.
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(VTR) Device for recording visuals and sound on spools of magnetic tape. It is used in television broadcasting.