How Does a VCR Work? 📼
Learn how VCRs from the 80s and 90s recorded and played videos, a fascinating piece of technology still interesting today.

Jared Owen
8.3M views • Aug 25, 2022

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The VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) was most popular during the 1980s and 1990s; however, it's still a really neat peace of technology!
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🌐Internet Sources:
https://youtu.be/pXFB7lX35KQ - VCR Video Heads Explained
https://youtu.be/0bbJ-7tXMf8 - VCR full mechanism tear down and reassemble
https://youtu.be/yMfNobmocp8 - VCR Basics - Video Head Configurations
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/vcr.htm
https://goughlui.com/the-vhs-corner/intro-inside-the-vhs-cassette-vcr/
http://fowens.people.ysu.edu/ElectronicTechforConsumers/VideocassetteRecorder.htm
📚Book Sources:
VCR Troubleshooting & Repair by Gregory Capelo and Robert Brenner
https://amzn.to/3AJ9HM4
Complete VCR Troubleshooting and Repair by Joseph Desposito and Kevin Garabedian
https://amzn.to/3PNwDhc
What's inside a VCR? by Arnold Ringstad
https://amzn.to/3wrMjjA
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Late Night Sessions by Dr. Delight
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10:53 https://youtu.be/Iod6uwUGM2E?si=XfoRN-gPw96hV7TV
Thanks to these video reviewers for their help with the video!
Victor - https://www.victorselectronicrepairs.com/
Retro Repair Guy - https://www.youtube.com/c/retrorepairguy
💻Follow me on social media:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JaredOwenAnimations
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This video has been dubbed in over 20 languages, you can change the audio track language in the Settings menu (click the gear icon in the lower right hand corner of the video).
Try dubbing your videos with AI: https://dittodub.com/a/jaredowen
🌐Internet Sources:
https://youtu.be/pXFB7lX35KQ - VCR Video Heads Explained
https://youtu.be/0bbJ-7tXMf8 - VCR full mechanism tear down and reassemble
https://youtu.be/yMfNobmocp8 - VCR Basics - Video Head Configurations
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/vcr.htm
https://goughlui.com/the-vhs-corner/intro-inside-the-vhs-cassette-vcr/
http://fowens.people.ysu.edu/ElectronicTechforConsumers/VideocassetteRecorder.htm
📚Book Sources:
VCR Troubleshooting & Repair by Gregory Capelo and Robert Brenner
https://amzn.to/3AJ9HM4
Complete VCR Troubleshooting and Repair by Joseph Desposito and Kevin Garabedian
https://amzn.to/3PNwDhc
What's inside a VCR? by Arnold Ringstad
https://amzn.to/3wrMjjA
🟠This animation was made with Blender 3.2 (Cycles Render)
www.blender.org
🎵Music (soundstripe.com):
Late Night Sessions by Dr. Delight
Machine Learning by Empyreal Glow
🎧Here is some of the gear that I use for animation:
Graphics Card: GTX 3090ti https://amzn.to/3nazTHE
Microphone: Shure MV7 https://amzn.to/3rDKSfk
Mouse: Razer Naga X https://amzn.to/3EupxKs
Chair: Staples Gaming Chair https://amzn.to/31hNgKS
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