We will see VCRs, stereos, TVs and speakers go wireless over the next decade.
Result: Most offer modern, albeit nautical-scale, showers, bathtubs and dishwashers, as well as TVs and VCRs.
It would be years before VCRs allowed us the flexibility to record and watch later.
By the VCR's peak in 1990, more than 200 million VCRs were being sold worldwide each year.
And Benjamin Yates makes his unique coffee tables from recycled circuit boards, old VCRs and computer components.
The LED stands for "light-emitting diode, " a semiconductor chip, found in VCRs and radios, that glows when electrified.
That has been the case for TVs, radios, VCRs, DVD players, PCs and even basic and feature mobile phones.
VCRs, they are actually specialised computers with a huge hard disk on to which video signals can be saved.
The VB50 is also equipped with multiple video entertainment ports for easy connections to DVD players, VCRs, videogame consoles and video camcorders.
Television sets and VCRs were banned, depriving Kabulis of one of their few pleasures - watching Indian movies on satellite television.
VCRs today are used to play rented films and not, as originally expected, to watch television programmes when it suits you.
This change will not affect the ability of any TV to work with cable boxes, satellite boxes, DVDs, VCRs or game consoles.
He sent the Soviets thousands of VCRs, microwaves, TVs, portable tape players and other electronics goods from his Manhattan retail store, Joy-Lud Co.
The makers of the first VCRs, the first MP3 players, and YouTube all faced civil copyright litigation from content companies accusing the firms of promoting piracy.
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Computers and VCRs may coas a lot, but it's doubtful that they are a greater burden than one-room school houses were for the cruelly poorer America of 60 years ago.
To get a copy of a movie off Gnutella, for example, a user need only double-click and wait for the download, while videotapes require setting up multiple VCRs.
Would the United States lose its competitive edge in this technological field and dominant world market share as it has in so many others, from computer chips to VCRs?
The entertainment industry didn't exactly welcome VCRs when they first appeared, either, taking Sony (SNE) to the Supreme Court for building machines that facilitated copyright infringement on a massive scale.
Although, he has certainly created enough highlights of his own, but he would carry around VCRs and tapes and decks and all sorts of clunky equipment on the plane flights.
Squat and black, like some evil shoebox, the machine weighs a Brobdingnagian 8 pounds, not only heavier than the other game consoles but probably most VCRs and DVD players as well.
It's understandable why VCRs were rectangular (cassettes were rectangular).
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Knowing nothing about how to move steel, Shnaider hung out at Ukrainian mills and made deals with desperate managers, providing everything from VCRs to dining room sets in exchange for hot-rolled steel.
They enjoyed twice the proportion of air conditioners and color TVs, and much more of the modern advances of microwaves, DVDs, VCRs, personal computers, and cell phones, as the middle class 30 years before.
While the process of discovery and invention always includes large doses of failure, energy policy is different than say, cell phones or VCRs, since more public money, time and effort are spent on them.
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The fact that Japanese consumers are willing guinea pigs for gadgets has allowed manufacturers to use their home market successfully as a test bed for products ranging from TVs and vcrs to digital cameras and video-game consoles.
Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) said that it managed an unexpected operating profit in its first fiscal quarter, thanks in part to sales of televisions and VCRs ahead of the tournament.
Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) is the leading TV manufacturer and one of the top five makers of VCRs, but has traditionally relied on others for the software that fills its boxes.
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