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videotape recorder

NOUN
video cassette recorder
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Ampex invented the first videotape recorder for professional use in 1956, a $50,000 machine that CBS used to tape and broadcast reruns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Says Wall Street Analyst Lee Isgur of Paine, Webber: "Probably 98% of the people who are exposed to videodisc and a videotape recorder for the first time will buy the tape recorder."

From Time Magazine Archive

It can be played back immediately from the videotape recorder onto the nearest TV screen.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a videotape recorder no bigger than a bread box.

From Time Magazine Archive

The center of the excitement was the first dual-deck videotape recorder available to U.S consumers, the VCR-2, made by the tiny Arizona-based Go-Video company.

From Time Magazine Archive