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RCA Selectavision VCR, 1981
1981
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
By the early 1980s the reduced price and scale of video recording and playback technology had helped create a lucrative and competitive home video market. JVC's VHS and Sony's Betamax--two incompatible video formats--rose to prominence. Despite Beta's superior picture quality, VHS?s longer recording capability--ideally suited for recording broadcast television for later viewing--established it as the standard.
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- Title: RCA Selectavision VCR, 1981
- Date Created: 1981
- Subject Keywords: Videocassette recorders, Remote controls
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=178275
- Object Name: Videocassette recorder
- Object ID: 95.10.1
- Image ID: THF153123
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Steven K. Hamp
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