Narayan plans to embed future versions of the TeleCruz chipset with broadband speed and VCR-like capabilities.
Track practices were recorded and then played for Kearney on a VCR in her hospital room.
At least they seem to have learned the lesson of the VCR -- and of Napster.
But I also remember when we got our first microwave, answering machine, VCR, and home computer.
She cannot learn how to reset the digital display on the VCR, stove, alarm and car.
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Before the invention of the VCR and the DVR, watching TV was a passive act.
Last year, VCR sales were up 43%, color televisions 37%, refrigerators 24% and washing machines 15%.
Absolutely--if they cost the same as a VCR and could record movies as well as play them.
By the VCR's peak in 1990, more than 200 million VCRs were being sold worldwide each year.
And from the VCR (1970) to the DVD (1996) to 3D TVs for home, CES rarely disappoints.
Hooking up the system was a snap, although the cable box and VCR had to be removed first.
The Supreme Court in 1984 reversed the federal court decision finding that the VCR was an illegal product.
Unlike the CD-player, which was merely a better record-player, the VCR replaced no other gadget around the home.
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The threat posed by the fidgety remote control and the poky VCR pales in comparison with the digital threat.
Thirty years before SOPA, the MPAA was in Washington, demanding legislative protection from a new and dangerous technology: the VCR.
Available in gray and green, the Pentium-powered computers are contoured like a TV and VCR, and feature easy-to-use speech-recognition software.
The small robot can even turn appliances on and off via remote control, switching on the dishwasher or the VCR.
Sure, when we all had one TV and one VCR this wasn't a huge deal -- one tape was enough.
Your VCR needed to be told which channel it was on but again it worked right out of the box.
Somebody had a grainy VCR copy of the original broadcast, perhaps, transferred it to digital and posted it on the Web.
When first introduced, the Betamax VCR may have been technically superior to its VHS rival, but it was a dead-end design.
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That's in addition to the amount of time they spent watching shows and movies on DVR, DVD, VCR and game consoles.
When I was about 10 years old we got a 25-inch color TV and a VCR, and that was a big deal.
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You can move the bits to a D-VHS VCR like the one JVC makes, but that has not yet gained broad acceptance.
The broadcasters complain that the device allows viewers to easily skip over commercials that would otherwise be recorded using a conventional VCR.
TiVo's disk-based VCR lets advertisers know which family members watched what shows.
The main difference is that, in its day, the VCR was unique.
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VCR-like device that they say will finally put the viewer in charge.
That's how the VCR stayed on the market, despite facilitating video piracy.
Owners can take their old analog VCR and camcorder tapes and convert them into digital files, edit them and put them on CDs.
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