VCR

While many of today's youth don't even really understand the point of VCR in lieu of things like digital, DVDs, TiVo, and other more newfangled products, the truth is clear that most of us grew up with VCRs somewhere in our homes and somewhere in our lives. Whether it be in the VCR systems that came about in our youth or the rickety old VCR that are fourth-grade teacher used of flux lives when she was trying to play a video about something on Monday when it was too hot to do school work in class, the truth is clear that VCRs have been around for quite some time and have followed many of us through many chapters of our lives. But what is the VCR today? Who even makes VCRs anymore? Who buys VCRs anymore? And where is the VCR fit in our modern life anymore? These are all interesting questions and all questions which should deserve some attention as we discuss the history of early machines and VCRs from yesterday up to today.

Videocassette recorders have been around since the mid-1950s. With a $50,000 price tag though videocassette recorders were really only used by television stations at first as everyone else sat by the wayside to see how the thing would go down. VCRs and exploded in a big way and became a very popular item which everyone had to have in the 70s and 80s. Though just as quickly as its rise to the top had ascended, its fall from grace was just as gruesome as the digital technologies within in the mid-to-late 90s and VCRs were something of a forgotten beast.

VCRs are still trying to maintain their relevance in the 21st century and there are a number of different models which are garnering some attention in hopes of reviving the lost art form of VCR use. There are many new DVD and VCR combos in DDT in VCR recorders though their failure is probably just a matter of time.

The thing about VCRs is that their use is just no longer efficient. It's just like the cassette tape versus the compact disc versus the ultimate introduction of digital audio; once one begat the next it was just a matter of time before the former was permanently replaced; stopped in his tracks like dinosaurs in the La Brea tar pits, it seems only fitting that the VCR be left in the dust and forgotten as it was then.