What is National Vcr Day?

National VCR Day, on June 7th, examines a device that changed the home movie-watching experience. The observance honors the video cassette recorder (VCR), a device that was once a technological marvel of science, in its time.

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On a portable, magnetic tape videocassette, the VCR is an electro-mechanical device that captures analog audio and analog video from television. Images and sound can now be played back at a more convenient time. In 1956, Charles Ginsburg, an American engineer at Ampex, which produced one of the first practical videotape recorders, was born.