videotape recorder
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Ampex invented the first videotape recorder for professional use in 1956, a $50,000 machine that CBS used to tape and broadcast reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
The radio's success led to more firsts in transistorized products, such as an 8-in. television and a videotape recorder.
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It is a videotape recorder no bigger than a bread box.
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Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. is developing a home videotape recorder that it hopes to market for $500.
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Says Wall Street Analyst Lee Isgur of Paine, Webber: "Probably 98% of the people who are exposed to videodisc and a videotape recorder for the first time will buy the tape recorder."
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