||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A great history of the VCR|By Joshua Gans|Video cassette recorders may be a couple of generations behind the times but the history of their adoption turns out to be quite fascinating. Written by Josh Greenberg, From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video is a very accessible and easy to read history of two decades or so of a ubiquitous househ
The first video cassette recorders were promoted in the 1970s as an extension of broadcast television technology -- a time-shifting device, a way to tape TV shows. Early advertising for Sony's Betamax told potential purchasers "You don't have to miss Kojak because you're watching Columbo." But within a few years, the VCR had been transformed from a machine that recorded television into an extension of the movie theater into the home. This was less a p... [PDF.pz84] From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video (Inside Technology) Rating: 3.75 (784 Votes)
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