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videocassette recorder

[¦vid·ē·ō‚kə′set ri‚kȯrd·ər]
(electronics)
A device for video recording and playing of magnetic tapes that are contained in plastic cases. Abbreviated VCR.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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(See table 1 .) Data on expenditures and percent reporting for microwave ovens, sound components and components systems, and videocassette recorders and video disc players follow the expected patterns.
If nothing extraordinary is visible, the viewer can rewind the videocassette recorder using the remote video management system, then replay the video captured during the time of the alarm.
Accounting for 7% of the store's $100,000-a-week volume, the department sells and services refrigerators, freezers, stoves, washers and dryers, as well as microwave ovens, videocassette recorders, console televisions and other items.
However, with the overwhelming number of videocassette recorder (VCR) owners in the nation (19 of 20 Americans own VCRs), it behooves retailers to continue to stock the analog magnetic products consumers still need.
Furukawa's laptop computer, videocassette recorder and other belongings, including an unspecified sum of cash, had been stolen, Japanese diplomats said.
RUSSO: "We are offering a free adaptor that enables consumers to play a VHS-C cassette in their videocassette recorder. This way if someone wants to mail a tape to someone they can also send an adaptor.
It has a tiny camera at one end and a monitor and videocassette recorder at the other.
It took the videocassette recorder 13 years to reach a comparable level of household penetration.
There's even a video library with 150 videos and an in-store videocassette recorder. Customers may also take videos home, and Poolner says the vast majority are returned.
If a customer expresses interest in a television monitor or a videocassette recorder in a home theater display, then the customer should be shown merchandise in the general area of the store for that product."
"With blank tape, we've reached the point at which just about everybody has a videocassette recorder or an audiotape player, so the demand is there."
Nakayama was indicted on seven other charges, including injuring a woman at her home in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, during a July 17, 1996, robbery in which he made off with her videocassette recorder.
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