Sentence examples for vcr recorders from inspiring English sources

This article has been amended to reflect that Funai Electric have ceased to manufacture VHS VCR recorders, and not VHS tapes.

A TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR), a VCR that records television shows onto a hard drive instead of tapes.

Television is now delivered in a variety of ways: "over the air" by terrestrial radio waves (traditional broadcast TV); along coaxial cables (cable TV); reflected off of satellites held in geostationary Earth orbit (direct broadcast satellite, or DBS, TV); recorded on magnetic tape and played in videocassette recorders (VCRs); and recorded optically on digital video discs (DVDs).

Most have the sockets for the old fashioned red white and yellow audio-visual leads for connection to VCR and DVD recorders, but some also have S-video ports.

But there are good reasons why things might actually be different this time.The PVR first emerged a few years ago as an alternative to the video cassette recorder (VCR) for people who wanted to record television programmes but did not want the stack of tapes they generated.

A. A digital video recorder, or DVR, is a set-top box that, like a VCR, can record and play television programs so you can watch them when you have the time.

For later real time off-line analysis, images were recorded using a digital videocassette recorder (VCR).

And, appropriately enough, they are butting heads over which of their digital video disc (DVD) recorder designs will replace the ageing video-cassette recorder (VCR) that they fought over a decade and a half ago.The difference today is that Sony and Matsushita may have left it too late for either to gain any real advantage in the marketplace.

Unlike a VCR, which records shows on removable videotapes, a DVR stores its content on an internal hard drive that you can browse with your remote control and the recorder's software.

The home videocassette recorder (VCR).

Last summer the company transferred its production of video recorders (VCRs) to Funai, a Japanese manufacturer.