Why the VCR Was the Most Important Tech for Entertainment
It would forever change the way we interacted with film and TV
The genuine love for entertainment wasn’t possible until we had the VCR. For the first time, you could now go back and re-watch your favorite shows and movies to get a better appreciation for them.
The creation of the VCR allowed for entertainment to be fully absorbed, instead of being a one-off experience. Live TV was now a thing of the past, and monumental television events could now be relived over and over.
This is a look back on the VRC: the most important piece of tech when it comes to entertainment.
Getting the VCR Up and Running
Depending on your age, you might not have had any experience with a VCR. But if you’re old enough, you know what a significant change it was in the tech world. We usually associate the VCR with the 1980s, but it goes a lot further back than that.
The first iteration of the VCR, as we know it, came out in the 1950s. They called it the VRX-1000. It cost $50,000, needed a technician to operate it, and had a lifespan of only a few hundred hours.
That takes us into the era of Sony. They released what we can consider the first commercial VCR called the Sony U-Matic in 1971. It used tapes…
