DVD Vs VCR

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Term Paper Title	DVD Vs VCR
# of Words	1022
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	4.09

DVD vs VCR

[Category]:

Technology

[Paper Title]:

DVD vs. VCR

[Text]:

As time changes, so do advances in technological devices. Nowhere is this
more apparent than in the area of popular entertainment where home videos are
found in nearly every American’s home. The fact that many people own home
videos isn’t as intriguing as the type of equipment that is being used to view
these videos. At one time video cassette recorders were commonplace in homes
across the U.S., but nowadays, a trend towards a new device is making headway;
digital video disk players. The videos these two devices play may be the same,
but there are also stark differences between the two.

The first television sets hit households in the U.S. in the late 1930’s and
by the 1970’s the first videocassette recorders, more commonly referred to as
VCR’s, hit the market. Marshall Brain’s website Howstuffworks.com states;
“When people think about the history of television, there are a handful of
events that stand out as extremely important. …The VCR marks one of the most
important events in the history of television because, for the first time, it
gave people control of what they could watch on their TV’s.” This is a
comment that is widely accepted by a wide variety of people worldwide. Before
VCRs, consumers had to watch what the broadcast stations decided to put on the
screen but with VCRs, these same people could now buy, and record their favorite
shows and view them whenever they wish. VCRs work by storing video information
on a plastic cassette filled with an 800-foot roll of oxide-coated Mylar tape.
The VCR reads this tape and projects its information onto a television where the
user views it. Putting information onto videocassettes is easy enough that
nearly all-new VCRs are capable of doing so.

VCR prices can be found below $100 and videocassette prices hover around ten
dollars at many large retailers across the Midwest. A major reason for this is
that VCRs have been available for years and competition to make cheaper VCRs
have driven down the prices. Also, new advances in technology have led to new
devices again driving down the prices. The storage space that VCR’s consume is
moderate when compared to other types of multimedia, but the videocassettes take
up more room because of their composition.

Operating a VCR is a common routine in middle class America mostly because
they have been around for so long. Manufactures have been coming up with new,
interesting features to keep user...

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