But if the VCR was revealed last week at CES, it would have to be a much smarter VCR.
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That was the price of the first videotape recorder, or VTR, a forerunner to the VCR — not the price of the first VCR.
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He was cool—he ran with us—but what he used to do was plug into a VCR and then dub the VCR to another tape.
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In July, Japan's Funai Electric, the world's last surviving VCR maker, wound down its production of the dated video cassette recording format 222 years after the first VCR was made.
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No explanation for why anybody still owns a working VCR.
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And the camera caught something besides the TV and VCR.
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He had a VCR from when they first came out.
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I popped my tape into the VCR and stood beside him.
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By the 503s, the VCR was catching on with ordinary Americans.
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When folded up, it's basically the size of a VCR tape.
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However, the piles of recycled VCR tapes on the table preoccupy her.
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Think of the VCR, the playlist, the Facebook page, the Instagram account.
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My mom put on the VCR … and out comes this private investigator footage.
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This month, the world's last manufacturer of VCRs will manufacture its last VCR.
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Despite the chunkiness of early TiVo, it immediately put the VCR on notice.
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They were like the first of their friends to have this JVC VCR.
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So that's what I started doing, started plugging my VCR into my sampler.
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It's been a good 44 years since the first VCR was introduced by Philips.
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Pakistani audiences, starved of entertainment, were pacified only by the arrival of the VCR.
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He watched the movie alone at home in San Jose on a newfangled VCR.
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"We don't want to be caught in a Beta versus VCR moment," he said.
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The VCR, for nearly two decades, was the prototypical gadget of tech trade shows.
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I'm guessing that this is the tape wound up inside of a VCR cassette.
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In 1998, the VCR industry tried its hand at high definition with HD VHS.
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One guy hit the VCR so hard it broke through one of our walls.
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The Mojo fits the performance of VCR-sized audio equipment into a shirt pocket.
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They had a VCR and a collection of tapes — mostly stuff from Bonet's childhood.
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All hail the VCR: the more or less obsolete technology that keeps on giving.
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Fitness classes have been "obsolete" since the invention of the VCR in the 1970s.
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You see, while a large swath of millennials likely can barely remember what a VCR or VHS tape looks like (the Gen Xers, on the other hand, will never forget), they all enjoy the benefits of the revolution started by the lowly VCR.
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Vice found this great/terrifying video of an anthropomorphic, cigar-holding VCR discussing how to keep your VCR clean: There's a wealth of really fun videos to explore here, and it seems as if new videos are being added all the time.
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As a kid, I learned how to operate the family VCR faster than my parents.
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Relive the anticipation of waiting for your old videos to rewind with this VCR player.
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This is not an exaggeration — I learned how to work the VCR for this purpose.
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At least initially, each RAID helicopter had an VCR on board to save footage, too.
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Pretend you're cozying up around the VCR just like back in the day — and cue nostalgia.
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You had to go to a video store, or set a VCR for a TV airing.
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I popped it in the VCR, and my eight-year-old brother and I started watching.
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To buy a VCR in the early 1980s, you'd be plunking down between $600 and $1,200.
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The introduction of the DVD in 1995 was the beginning of the end for the VCR.
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The last remaining VCR company isn't a big name like Panasonic, which gave up years ago.
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The Boys The Boys are made up of members of VCR, Triage, and other scene stalwarts.
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I bought a genuine 1994 Radio Shack television set with a built in VCR on eBay.
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You take the tape downstairs, to a television hissing with static, and slide it into the VCR.
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There is a cohort whose commitment to learning gadgetry to watch TV peaked with programming a VCR.
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Sprague fixed his broken VCR, and asked if he could borrow some screeners, which Caridi agreed to.
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In the 1970s and '80s, home video systems like VCR were marketed using a vocabulary of empowerment.
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I ended up going to the movies, which was a tiny shack with a TV and VCR.
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At least Kate can be happy about something — the VCR doctor fixes the tape, so all is well.
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But even then, I was often taken aback by the ask, as if I'd been handed a VCR.
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When his VCR was no longer useful, Frank Hill allegedly ordered a porn channel from the Dish Network.
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My father would go to Germany, bring back VCR, TVs, and stereos, fix them up and sell them.
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Porn had long been a welcome draw at electronics shows since fueling the VCR boom in the 1980s.
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Julian Bendaña is the founder of a popular "VCR cleaning enthusiasts group," as he calls it, on Facebook.
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He later bought a VCR and filled in the holes in his collection through trades with other fans.
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When I think back to the rotary phone, the family PC, the VCR ... people had those for years.
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I remember being at a friends house, and they were going to watch Nightmare on Elm Street, and just as he's about to put in the VCR tape—yes, the vintage days of VCR tapes—he was putting it in, and I just started to have a real anxiety attack.
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" But he was critical of the status quo in television, calling satellite receivers "nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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Toby brings the tape to the VCR doctor, who can put it on the cloud, which Kate vehemently disapproves.
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This happened pre-internet, certainly, as there were lawsuits over player pianos, radio, cable TV, the VCR, and more.
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It worked on the first try; I didn't even need to wiggle the cart in the little VCR slot.
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There's no better way to say "I'm sorry I ruined your lives and crammed 11 cookies into the VCR."
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From Candy Land VCR to Captain Power, game makers were doing the best they could with a new technology.
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The horror you'd feel when you took a tape out of your VCR and unspooled the long, black ribbons.
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It was so big and dopey and VCR-like, but ultimately what killed it is the lack of games.
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Hit play on the VCR, because here are five things Center Stage did so much better than On Pointe.
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For cultural purposes, the Museum of Endangered sounds will ensure your kids will recognize the strange whirring of a VCR.
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First of all, it's so nice to watch him crack open an old VCR and clean up the dusty components.
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When I was her age, the epitome of kindness was rewinding the VCR tape when I was done watching it.
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Sure, both are great gaming consoles, but their cases employ the same look of every generic VCR from the 1980s.
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Thank you for renting a VCR every weekend and watching Annie with me over and over until your ears bled.
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Would you like an Xbox One that can actually fit under your TV without looking like a 1980s VCR player?
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Yeah, if you look at the VCR versus Betamax, Betamax lost out because they didn't allow porn on their platform.
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" And, lastly, a phrase that experienced great popularity in the 1980s and 1990s in Greece is "may your VCR burn.
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You'd need a VCR that could record shows plus the tapes themselves, which cost extra money and took up space.
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Remember when having a DVD/VCR combo built right into your TV was considered the apex of home entertainment tech?
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When we got a VCR, "Y & R" had to be taped everyday, so they could watch it in the evenings.
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Then, we'd shove it back into the VCR and settle down to watch Cindy's rags-to riches-transformation all over again.
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Amazon is the No. 1 holding in the consumer discretionary index and all three of the ETFs — XLY, VCR and IYC.
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For the purposes of this guide, I used a small TV and VCR combo that The Verge had in the office.
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While Mr. Skin was recording Tara Reid with his VCR, Stern was also putting out episodes of The Lesbian Dating Game.
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For his new work Immersion Part 2, Vallet-Oheix gives viewers the opportunity to use old TV sets and VCR tapes.
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This muddled journey began with Nirvana in my dad's pickup truck, Johnny Cash on Sunday mornings, and Fantasia in the VCR.
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I don't recall my father ever prying open our VCR with a screwdriver and treating the mechanisms with a bottle of Locker Room—I'm pretty sure there was a simple cassette cleaner you could pop in and let it automatically run a short cycle—but with every other poppers brand sold as "VCR cleaner," hell, it's gotta be good.
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Like the VCR games of yore, When in Rome depends on a new technology to find a new way to have fun.
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It might be even difficult to find a working VCR, as the last company to manufacture them stopped doing so in 2016.
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"That's my hand," Mr. Hanna said, pointing to the fingers turning on the TV and pushing the "play" button on the VCR.
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In case you're wondering what Windows 3.1 files look like when they're played back on a VCR, it's mostly snow and static.
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Just about every fight was available online, and you didn't have to trek up to Hamilton Heights and find a working VCR.
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Not only will it offer DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS, but if you need a VCR it'll rent you one of those, too.
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The VCR is one of the few technologies that passed the highest bar we can possibly set: It made the previously impossible commonplace.
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"Ever since the VCR, with every new generation of technology there's an attempt to hold the vendors of the technology responsible," Stoltz said.
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I hope it ends up being easier than I imagine, but if not, I guess I can probably find a VCR on Craigslist!
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Rewind the VHS tape to where you'd like to start the conversion, press play on your VCR, then hit record on your computer.
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The VCR was invented in the 1950s, made its way into the first homes in the 1960s, and gained popularity in the 1970s.
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I was going to say let's pour one out for the VCR and VHS, but you probably did so a long time ago.
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There were no apps, just on-screen controls that you navigated via either a dedicated remote or the buttons directly on the VCR.
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THE NEW JVC HR-J2999.00UB VHS 4 HEAD VCR — $199.95 See Details Instant film cameras have been back in style for a while.
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Mr. Sheinberg relished a court battle, sparring about copyright issues with Sony over the VCR and with Nintendo over its Donkey Kong game.
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Mary Parsons works at a travel agency, which in 2017 is kind of like running a VCR repair shop or installing pay phones.
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During one winter visit, he popped a tape into a VCR, showing his daughter's quinceañera — her 15th birthday party — at the Hotel Nacional.
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Indeed, Sande hung onto her VCR and about 12 VHS tapes when she got married and had to do away with some stuff.
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I've also been a devoted fan of horror movies since I first popped "Slumber Party Massacre" into my VCR one night in 1985.
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Then along came the VCR, a device I spent the weekend considering when I learned that the last VHS manufacturer ceased production last week.
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By infusing it with VHS voodoo, neon 1980s colors and a VCR aesthetic, writer Watters and artist Wijngaard create a fresh, bold new comic.
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They played all their hits: the song about watching unnamed movies on VCR, the song about the unnamed islands, the song about the angels.
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In 2016, the last VCR production company shut down, and CDs look to be heading in the same direction, making DVD drives nearly obsolete.
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I'd wake up early the next day, and if the tapes were still in the VCR, it meant that I was allowed to watch it.
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And before you throw out the dusty VCR, Fumai or Panasonic or otherwise, don't forget that it's full of hundreds of dollars worth of gear.
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For my birthday, he got me a video equalizer, where you could run the camcorder through the VCR and add titles, music, and weird effects.
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It didn't help that the original hardware looked like a VCR from 1987 and kicked out heat like a diesel truck from the same era.
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It didn't help that the original hardware looked like a VCR from 24 and kicked out heat like a diesel truck from the same era.
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This is not the same mechanic as a save point or save state; the gameplay literally rewinds itself, like a video cassette on a VCR.
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She reached for the remote on the table and turned on the little TV/VCR Emerson set up in the cabinet since we were kids.
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"Put the tape of his confession in the VCR or DVD player and play it, there's our case right there," Halbach's brother told the press.
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If, heaven forbid, I was going to be away from my television while "9090" was airing, I would set my VCR to record the episode.
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Microsoft tried to change that narrative by making the original Xbox One a wacky Kinect-powered next-gen VCR media hub, but fell on its face.
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That's why I think Google's arrival looks more like… Think of it like Google building its own brand of VCR in the early days of videotapes.
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You favorite recording was toast (much later, the devices got so cheap that when they started misbehaving, you toss the VCR and buy a new one).
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Central Hall at CES was where all the action was; the home theater ruled the land under the benign blinking 12:00 of a HiFi VCR.
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As for that JVC VCR my parents splurged on: it never received a single software update, and it never talked back when we talked to it.
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I don't recall the brand name of my teenage VCR, but I know still remember the owner's name at my local mom and pop video store.
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Once, when he was twelve, he was watching a forbidden videotape, and, during one of his neighborhood's frequent power outages, it got stuck in the VCR.
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VCR-style footage is interspliced with hi-def clips to tell the story of a failed marriage ceremony involving Antonoff, someone called Giulia, and Giulia's lover.
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I'm not sold on the name, but I think I am sold on the shape: instead of a VCR-like traditional console, it's a square tower.
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"My VCR was one of my first adult purchases when I moved out of home, when I could afford to rent my own videotapes," she said.
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" He added, somewhat famously, that "the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
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Dear Angelica is a simple story: A girl who lost her actress mother at a young age reconnects with her by watching old films on a VCR.
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I have an old VCR in storage (for emergencies!), so I followed a simple YouTube tutorial on how to open and clean its heads with rubbing alcohol.
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One of the alarming discoveries of the modern era is that data storage technologies, from VCR tapes to floppy disks, are becoming obsolete at an increasing clip.
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Noise musician and super fan Sam McKinlay created Black Gloves in 1999, using a VCR to record and edit gialli recorded on television or off VHS tapes.
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For those of us who grew up with them, there's a strong feeling of nostalgia for the ritual of popping them in and out of the VCR.
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Before 1999, recording TV required hooking up a VCR to your cable box or antenna and then having to deal with truly archaic timers to set recordings.
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I think in many ways those distinctions, the way politics is covered, the binary choice between more government and less government is as outdated as the VCR.
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Okay, I didn't, they were ... It used to be in the same building, same show, it was because of the advent of video technology and the VCR.
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Prom NiteAnother new aggregate of local players, linking the immediate lineage of Toronto's DIY punk scene (Scott of VCR, and Chloe of Anti Vibes) to new projects.
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The finale alone attracted 100 million viewers, which is astounding when you consider that this is before most Americans had ever encountered acronyms like DVR or VCR.
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Funai produced its first VCR in 1983 and sold as many as 15 million a year at one point, but last year managed sales of just 750,000.
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In their father's office, the brothers find an old VCR board game, the kind that requires you to play a videotape that guides you through the game.
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You had to be in front of the tube for whatever program you wanted to watch, or else use an ancient device called a "VCR" to record things.
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No, but also yes: every so often, that VCR-like product is there, the one that introduces a new, disruptive format that everybody makes a big deal about.
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For the US market, it remodeled the console to look more like a VCR -- a popular machine at the time -- and renamed it the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
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The world's last VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) will be produced by Japanese electronics maker Funai Electric Co. sometime this month according to an anonymous spokesman for the company.
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The man's co-conspirator then fixes the mishap in their plan by using a remote control to rewind the movie itself, as if it were in a VCR.
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You would think that a 15-year-old horror movie that makes a VCR complicit in a series of murders would come across today as a laughable concept.
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In LaFleur's offense, the dialect he had spoken fluently, with such eloquence, was as outdated as a VCR, putting him on an equal learning curve with his teammates.
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As Jane Fonda brought aerobics to the VCR and Olivia Newton-John brought headbanded leotard fashion to the street, Canyon Ranch brought diet and exercise to the vacation.
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Snapchat might not want competition for its own VCR, but if Google convinces more movie studios to make videotapes, the rising tide of the format could lift all boats.
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Sure enough, his cleaned up VCR works and you know it's a VHS because the first bit of video we get is a trailer for The Mask of Zorro.
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Click here to view original GIFWith this fresh specimen, he proceeds to hook up his VCR to a laptop using a Western Digital Live TV that accepts composite video.
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We're talking movies that make me throw out my old VCR just in case the girl from The Ring decides to imprint onto my copy of The Little Mermaid.
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But after they got into a fight over a VCR I broke a few years into our friendship, she and I have gotten together only once, for Mexican food.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing new regulations to mandate a uniform technical design for set-top TV boxes — the device you probably refer to as the VCR.
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It doesn't require you to open or make any modifications to the classic portable TV. What YouTube's My Mate VINCE instead did was connect his Nintendo Switch's digital HDMI cable to an analog converter, which was then piped into an old VCR which converted the signal to RF. Wiring the VCR to an antenna, with a signal booster in-between, essentially created a low-power pirate TV station the Watchman could be tuned into.
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The eject button is pushed, someone thumps the top of a static-filled TV screen, and then, from the tape-slot of a VCR, a pair of bandaged hands emerge.
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Most consumer USB-based digitizers have a similar selection of plugs on one end to use with the VCR; a set of composite (red, white, yellow) cables and S-Video.
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If your VCR has an S-Video port, it's a good idea to opt for that instead of the yellow composite jack for better video quality in the conversion process.
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Dear Angelica is a beautiful VR film about a girl who lost her actress mother at a young age and reconnects with her by watching old films on a VCR.
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The last time I turned on our VCR (yes, we still have a couple gathering dust in our home) was to try and recover some of my early media appearances.
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However, I will not do so without saying thanks: Thanks, VCR, for showing the world how to be masters of our own entertainment domains, rulers of time, space and content.
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Related: This Miyazaki Glitch Art Channels Vintage VHS Tapes Zone Out to Raw Analog Signals in this Glitchy Music Video DESIGN Virtual VCR Brings VHS Quality to YouTube Music Videos
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Netflix can claim to feel love toward whatever it wants but I love Netflix the exact amount that I loved my VCR in 1995 and my DVD player in 2001.
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The creators who do actually put effort and creativity into their work, like the VCR-syncers of the 90s did, are the ones who are rewarded at cons and on YouTube.
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I bullied my parents into purchasing the tape, even though we didn't yet own a VCR; on weekends we occasionally rented a machine from a store in our town of 2,15.93.
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Related: Lost Data, Neon Art, and Textiles Collide in an Electronic Art Exhibition Both Like and Unlike Man: Galen Pehrson's Uncanny Cartoons Virtual VCR Brings VHS Quality to YouTube Music Videos
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The death-by-VCR conceit has been pretty thoroughly exhausted at this point, imitation being the sincerest form of flattery — see, for instance, "Beyond the Gates," which came out in December.
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Dan and Caspar continue their conversation about the comic—including this VCR page in particular—in the latest episode of Strip Panel Naked, the comic mini-masterclass hosted by Hass Otsmane-Elhaou.
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The cool-girl calling card for every 12-year-old hosting a slumber party was to pop a Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen movie or The Parent Trap into the VCR player.
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I'll take Netflix, Hulu and YouTube, which by the way don't hog up any physical space in your home, over a bulky VCR box and cluttered shelves of VHS tapes any day.
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It might sound a little crazy that people would lug home a VCR and adjust the tracking when they could just fire up Netflix, but I wouldn't be surprised if it works.
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The study was released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (a trade group for online publishers and advertisers) and conducted by MARU/VCR&C, which says it surveyed more than 1,200 US adults.
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My mother likes to tell me that I went to my first tech trade show in a stroller, and that she and my father were inspired to get a VCR that day.
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The company knows watching VHS tapes isn't much of an option without a VCR, so the antiquated machines will be available for rent along with a free rental for HDMI-to-RCA adapters.
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The Xbox One S is an impressive piece of hardware engineering, taking the hulking, VCR that was the original Xbox One and slimming it down to a dramatically smaller and modern-looking box.
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The set up is quite fiddly, involving the Switch and the 1986 Sony Watchman Pocket TV, a HDMI cable, a HDMI to AV converter, a VCR, an RF signal booster, and an aerial.
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Along the way, the soldiers helped themselves, taking home a freezer, a satellite dish, a VCR, a television set, a soccer ball, a black-and-white puppy and a young pig for dinner.
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The recessed cartridge slot, a VCR-inspired feature, accumulated dust and originated the ritual of blowing into the cartridge before use -- apparently just making the problem worse as that oxidized the copper contacts.
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With its devices, you could easily record TV shows via remote control so you didn't have to rush to the couch to catch your favorite series — or hope you set your VCR correctly.
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Though economists say the middle class won't benefit as much, the best bet for U.S. investors may be consumer discretionary ETFs, including the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR (XLY) and Vanguard Consumer Discretionary (VCR).
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He was immediately taken to Dr. Lawrence Lenke, a world-renowned spinal surgeon at New York-Presbyterian, who said "John's spine is bending by the hour" and he needed vertebral column resection (VCR) surgery.
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For example, she buys a new VCR at Best Buy so she can tape the news coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center, which she watches "over and over" to "soothe" herself.
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While no version of Kaposztas's mashup is available online, nearly every aspiring AMV maker used the two-VCR method that he utilized until much later, when editing software became practical enough to afford and use.
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"When you buy a VCR for 200 bucks, you can buy Consumer Reports to find out what's out there," he said in an interview with The New York Times in 1997, the year he retired.
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The latest batch of fundraising reports released this week confirmed a new reality of presidential politics: the traditional, big-dollar model of funding a presidential campaign is going the way of landlines and the VCR.
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In this page Clay, the main character, is forcibly ejected from a VCR, and through the latest Strip Panel Naked we learn more about how the author-artist pair works together and divides up their work.
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Once you dig out your home movies from wherever it is that they've been hiding, you'll need a few tools to get things kicked off: You will probably get decent results with just about any VCR.
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Meanwhile, the bottom-tier Roku 1 is the only model that supports old school RCA inputs—the yellow, white, and red cables you may have used to hook up your VCR to a TV 15 years ago.
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Who could forget the olden days of huddling around the television, slipping that black brick of a tape from its worn jacket and into the VCR, and seeing red upon realizing it hadn't been re-wound (again)?
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Kaposztas' method involved careful synchronization of two VCR players: one standard player for a dubbed cassette of music and another equipped with a "flying" erase head with which to better edit the video component of the AMV.
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The idea of a horror movie that hinges on having to put a physical videotape in a VCR is so quaint at this point that I couldn't believe it was still scaring me after all these years.
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I was kind of excited to watch this movie, so I popped it in the VCR, and she sits in her recliner in front of the TV with me, this good old Appalachian grandma with her Bible.
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" Once at her home, Cotton allegedly told police that she had "smacked [her boyfriend] a couple of times with a VCR tape," and was swinging a battery pack from a leaf blower at him in a "threatening manner.
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He purchased a new VCR and capture card just for the occasion, but the process took longer than he anticipated: he had to actually watch through each tape, from beginning to end, in order to make digital versions.
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After mining the 1970s, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman tour the '80s, with stops at the Reagan administration, the AIDS crisis, Wall Street corruption and, in this first episode, prime-time television and the advent of the VCR.
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The feeling of the red indented dot against my fingertip as I pushed record on my parents' old VCR attached to their bedroom TV. The light of the late afternoon sun reflecting off the curved glass of the television.
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The Neediest Cases Fund Angels are everywhere in the Muñiz family's apartment in the Bronx: paintings of angels on the wall, ceramic angels flanking the ancient VCR, angels strumming lyres or blowing little golden trumpets on the bathroom shelves.
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I don't actually remember this happening but it is captured forever on VCR and you can hear my parents creasing with laughter as grief settles for the first time upon my fat little face and it crumples into a james_van_der_beek_crying.gif.
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Back when the film first came out in 1986 (30 years ago today), I'd just bought myself a large Sony TV and a state-of-the-art Sony VCR and amp, which meant I could watch films in loud, stereo sound.
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While these types of "time-shifting" tools can be seen in the same legal light as recording a show with a VCR for personal viewing, using them usually violates your terms of service agreements with Netflix and the other companies.
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On his dresser was a Magnavox TV, twenty-five-inch, with a built-in VCR, presumably left on all day, tuned to ESPN, where the announcers were oohing and aahing over, who else, Michael Jordan, who was doing, what else, winning.
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Channel 4 showed every other Pay Per View event for free, and as such I'd managed to persuade my dad to configure the VCR machine to record the 2000 Royal Rumble, having already decided to skive off on the Monday morning.
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Unlike the shaky iPhone videos, low-def VCR recordings, and hollow in-studio performances that tend to populate live performance search results, Later offers up rich sound, dynamic camerawork, and an intimacy tailored to the particular mojo of each act.
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One day it occurred to him that he could use the electronic news-gathering cameras with which he had been trained in television school to tell a fictional story in Igbo that would appeal more directly to the VCR owners of Nigeria.
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From fighting the advent of the Betamax, VCR and MTV to 2012's SOPA/PIPA legislation, the content industry has a long history of attacking technological advancements that have ceded the gatekeepers' control over what we watch, read, buy and listen to.
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Maybe it doesn't matter so much that this slim collection of critical essays is built around the experience of binge-watching shows on a DVD player, a platform that bids fair to join the VCR and the eight-track in the techno-landfill.
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Having to possess the tape, put it in a VCR, and watch it on the TV (which Samara later climbs out of to scare her victims to death), is part of the ritual that makes the movie so frightening and also voyeuristic.
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A mainstay of moviegoing from the early 1930s into the early 1980s — more or less when the VCR became popular — the double feature was instituted during the Great Depression by theater owners who used giveaway kitchenware and other gimmicks to bolster declining audiences.
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At the time, most people's idea of a home entertainment system was a television hooked up to a VCR (electronic devices that played VHS tapes for anyone too young to remember), though video discs like DVDs were beginning to be introduced by the mid-90s.
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Still, if the Kano venture is a success, we could be marveling in a few years as our friends have their 8-year-olds explain the blockchain just like we used to do when it was time to program the VCR for our parents.
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The death of the VHS also meant the death of guaranteed breaks for longer movies, giants like Titanic that took up two tapes — demanding that viewers avoid permanently melding into their seats by forcing them to walk up to the VCR and switch cassettes.
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It was a simpler time — when you secretly wished for a tiger BFF and actively squinched your eyes shut at the moment when Jasmine was about to kiss Aladdin on his flying carpet — that you may have assumed was as dead as that old VCR.
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The two 8-bit consoles are basically identical in terms of hardware, but the Famicom's red-and-white physical styling is a lot quirkier; Nintendo gave the NES a subdued, VCR-influenced design that it felt would be better suited to the American market.
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Decades before TED Talks, so-called massive open online courses and YouTube videos made top educators accessible to the masses, the Great Courses built a loyal audience of lifelong learners by making "the world's greatest professors" available to anyone with a VCR or cassette player.
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That means you can keep it hands-free on any compatible RokuTV and turn it up to eleven for window-rattling fun the next time you fall into The Matrix (which, let's be real, was even pretty cool back on that rickety DVD/VCR combo).
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With a new consumer class hungry for CDs, cassettes, and video tapes to play on new devices like the Sony Walkman and Betamax VCR, record labels increasingly had the budget for more and more extravagant studio recordings, routinely flying in international musicians and hiring full symphony orchestras.
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I feel like "just wanted it to be watchable" is a pretty low bar for a devoted fan of the original (I taped the finale on a friggin' VCR because I had dance class when it aired; that's the level of commitment we're talking here) to have.
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Echoing the Wheelers&apos basement just like the show, guests can hang out in a pillow fort, select something to watch from more than 50 VHS tapes in the VCR, or pose up a storm for the &aposgram in front of the "Stranger Things" Christmas lights.
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With a herculean press of two Paul Bunyan-sized buttons, you could record anything that was playing on your TV, provided you could figure out how to run an antenna — or early-days cable — through the VCR and back out to your TV. They even let you schedule a recording.
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"Miles for Mary" takes place in the 1980s, and its conscientious design team anchors the play in time with the appropriate clothing and technological accessories, which include audiocassette tapes, VCR players and, most memorably, a tinny speaker phone by which a housebound teacher on pain killers participates woozily in the meetings.
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The image was put through that grainy VHS Camcorder app that every celebrity who's too young to have actually ever interacted with a VCR seems to be so enamored with, however, it appears to be a close-up of Gigi's chest bedecked with a heavy gold chain and a telltale sparkly Z pendant.
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But the consumer spending stock basket trade has not been a consistent bet for investors throughout 2018, with only two retail ETFs generating positive inflows of more than $100 million year-to-date, the Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary ETF (FDIS), at $450 million, and Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (VCR), at $313 million.
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The advent of videotape and the handheld video camera made physical media somewhat easier to work with, but all it takes is one afternoon spent carefully respooling the magnetic tape on a VHS cassette (or one VCR chewing up a bunch of that tape) to realize how easily ruined it all is.
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Yes, it helped in the VCR/VHS market of the late 1970s and early 80s and may have driven forward DVD adoption, but the industry was slow to adopt HD. Some of that may have been driven by, initially, how slowly traditional HD content and HDTVs entered the market in the early-to-mid-1990s.
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LG: I was thinking about this at CES because my mom is fond of telling me that the first trade show I ever went to, I was so little I was in a stroller, and it was at the Javits Center in New York City, and she and my dad ended up buying a VCR.
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But from here on out, consumer discretionary — which can be traded through many big exchange-traded funds like the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR (XLY) or Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index ETF (VCR) — has something going for it that not even technology can match: a perfect, if limited, history of big returns after strong starts to calendar years.
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At the beginning of each school year, I sat in front of the television, perhaps playing a VHS eternally kept in my VCR on which I recorded and rewatched music videos (the elusive video for No Doubt's "Excuse Me Mr.," which I'm certain only played on MTV three times), live performances (Hole on SNL), and other television ephemera.
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But just like how porn often drives technological innovations that later become mainstream – like adoption of the VCR back in the day, for example – we can only hope that this machine learning technology is later rolled out to all digital books, audio and otherwise, to classify scenes that are also "good parts," but for non-romantic reasons.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads An outdated Walkman, a dust-filled VCR player, or a keyboard fizzled out from spilled sodas — such consumer electronics we no longer want are accepted with open arms at the Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse, where they're sent off to be properly recycled or refurbished, then sold, to be enjoyed by someone else.
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Instead, she watches Harrison Ford and Whoopi Goldberg movies on her VCR all while chewing a wide and assorted variety of pills — ranging from Benadryl to over-the-counter cold medicine to prescribed controlled substances to a few fictional drugs that her quack of a psychiatrist assures will put her "down for the count" — and doesn't overly concern herself with… anything.
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I can't remember when exactly the Speak & Spell first entered my life—it was sometime in the very early '80s when I was four or five years old—but I do remember being amazed that my parents allowed me to touch and play with this marvel of technology, when other devices, like the VCR and the stereo, were strictly off-limits.
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The Switch's Joy-Cons are also attached to each side of the tiny TV. The Switch isn't directly connected to the pocket TV, rather it's hooked up to the VCR and RF antenna which then broadcasts the signal to the TV. Vince has tested it with Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Metal Slug, and Mario Kart and the results are delightful.
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" 'I'M SORRY I RUINED YOUR LIVES AND CRAMMED 6900 COOKIES INTO THE VCR': "Greg Gianforte, the Montana Republican elected last month to the state's open House seat following a physical brawl with journalist Ben Jacobs, has apologized over the incident and pledged to give $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ... 'My physical response to your legitimate question was unprofessional, unacceptable, and unlawful,' he wrote.
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The cartoon will center on Tony, the teenage cousin of Vin Diesel's character, Dom Toretto, who apparently decides to follow his cousin's unique career path from simple VCR thief to full-blown secret agent after he "and his friends are recruited by a government agency to infiltrate an elite racing league serving as a front for a nefarious crime organization bent on world domination," according to Variety's synopsis.
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