WORLD'S FIRST: VHS Video Cassette Recorder Made in 1976

The JVC HR3300 was the world's first VHS VCR. It used the philips VCR system invented in 1970, and improved on the length of recording time on one tape by using a compacting method to record more information on less of the tape, thus increasing the recording time. Following Philips 45 mins record time, Sony Betamax could only provide 1 Hr of recording in 1975. JVC achieved 120 mins or 2 Hrs of record time using a slightly bigger cassette, and the new VHS recording method. But it was enough to entice the popular masses with a cheaper machine (just under $1000) and tapes that were cheaper and could last for longer. JVC beat off the competition abd became a leader. Even Philips & Sony were forced to follow JVC and began manufacturing VHS machines instead of their own, under license from JVC.
at the beginning JVC had been discouraged by Matsushita to give up it's VHS system and build the Betamax, but JVC persisted against the odds, being the last company to look at inventing anything new in video recording. The last VCR from JVC was made in 2008.
M K Kiani

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[TheGlasgowKiss]

enjoyed the movie very much,thanks (i love vhs, dont know why....)

[mkkiani]

@TheGlasgowKiss You're welcome. Do you mean you prefer VHS over Betamax and others. Or do you mean as in a fettish?

The VHS system did last for over a generation.

[ElvisRocksVinyl]

LOL I think the secret door was where the coal went, this was so old even when I had it lol, the only down side these is they have billions of belts and tyres every where, even the head drum is belt driven.

[mkkiani]

@ElvisRocksVinyl Yep, it generated it's own electric power from coal. Like it! best regards.

[AidanLunn]

It didn't use the Philips VCR system at all. VHS was a totally new format, but adapted from Betamax.

If you've actually seen a Philips VCR N1500 cassette, you'll see why no other video cassette format anywhere in the world was based on the first Philips VCR system at all.

[mkkiani]

@AidanLunn No JVC could not infringe copyright. They designed their own ' larger VHS cassette' and created their own mechanism for this, and invented the VHS recording & playback system. Philips invented the concept of using cassettes and a mechanical method of recording & playing audio and video from these cassettes hence the VCR, when previously all machines were a VTR. Regards

[themachman19691]

haha i have this vhs recorder,made in japan,JVC.and it still works!!!!!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

A MIC JACK!?

Damn! I wish you still could hook up a video camera to a VCR.

[ElvisRocksVinyl]

oh man this was my first ever video recorder, I owned this exact model JVC, I bought it in 1992 from a yard sale for £10 when i was 12 years old lol much to my surprise it worked, noisy little bugger but never the less it recorded and played many programs for me back in the day. I also bought another model a year later which looked exactly the same as this but it was all grey even the sides but it was made by Ferguson.

[ObiTrev]

DVHS VCRs had 1080i video. They could record up to 50GB max data or 40 Hours Extended Play. CRAZY, but not as cool as the Original VHS Machine!

[butiamthedoctor]

JVC invented VHS, then to ensure the success of it, they opened up the patent so that any manufacturer could make VHS machines. Betamax on the otherhand, which Sony invented, was tied up in patents and licenses, it put potential manufacturers off the system, that they went over to VHS.

Original VHS recorded the audio on the edge of the tape (edge track recording). When stereo NICAM TV broadcasts were in development, Hi-Fi recording took over, the audio is recorded across the entire tape width.

[Watcher3223]

@AidanLunn

Of course, people may cite porn as a big reason for the success of VHS. But, that's more symptomatic than anything else.

For Beta, you could release anything you wanted, even the hardest of hardcore porn. The problem was that duplicating Beta by a Sony-licensed duplicator was more expensive because of tighter technical conformity and quality standards.

VHS was cheaper and easier in that area, so content from smaller home video companies opted for VHS.