In addition, a number of 1970s shows recorded by viewers using early VCR technology have surfaced on a number of websites in recent years.
en.wikipedia.org The definition of household goods was changed limiting electronic equipment to one radio, one television, one VCR, and one personal computer with related equipment.
en.wikipedia.org By 1996, two-thirds of households owned cars, 82% had central heating, most people owned a VCR, and one in five houses had a home computer.
en.wikipedia.org Only when VCR technology became available in the 1970s, making it easier to record and erase information, did video surveillance start to become more common.
en.wikipedia.org Before the VCR era, this would be the only opportunity audiences had of seeing a program more than once.
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