History of VCR

 Let's start from the beginning, what is a VCR? VCR stands for videocassette recorder and is an electromechanical recording and audio from broadcast television. VCRs were invented by Charles Paulson Ginsberg or to others he is known as "father of the videocassette recorder". Ginsberg started working for a company called Ampex which gave him the opportunity to lead and create the first official VCR in 1952. The videocassette recorder was used to film video and audio that was shown on TV. 

Fun fact about the VCR is that it was initially known as the VRX-1000 and was extremely complex to control. In the VCR's first release there were many downsides to this gadget. It initially cost $50,000 to purchase, people needed a technician to come over to their home, set up and operate the machine. On top of that the VCR would only last a few hundred hours maximum, after people would have $50,000 down the drain. Which is why there was no appeal at first, it was not accessible or affordable to the regular person. 

Fast forward to 1971 after many tweaks and changes put into the VCR, it was finally developed for the better. During this year the first ever VCR commercial known as the Sony U-Matic was released which permanently changed the world. This technology demonstrated how great the VCR can be by showing how convenient it has become. The VCR was created to establish convenience in the TV Industry. That way people don't have to drop everything that they are doing in order to watch a show they enjoy. Instead, this allowed people to record a show then broadcast it at different times. This ended up taking the world by storm and its appeal was understood worldwide. 

VCR forever changed the route of the Television industry. There are multiple ways the VCR altered the world and how we view the Television industry. The videocassette recorder gave us something us humans crave the most, control. For the first time people were able to control their TV experience, it is an understatement to say people quickly fell in love with that idea. As for communication, the VCR did not do much in that department. Since it was a recording device and not something like messenger on an iphone it didn't do anything for baseline communication. On the other-hand this revolutionized entertainment forever and the VCR became an opening for the Television Industry as a whole. 

This solved many issues, including but not limited to accessibility, affordability, convenience, and comfortability. Even though we have as a society has shifted from the VCR, it is impressively nostalgic for many generations. It became a gateway for so many technological advances. If the VCR was not created then we would not be where we are today and many things would have been done differently or not created as a whole. The VCR was a crucial piece of technology and it may be out of style now but people still refer to the VCR as a life changing development for everybody worldwide.