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The video recorder provided the viewer with a new freedom of viewing. Digital television combined with laser discs and hard discs give still more freedom and possibilities that are largely undiscovered.
The first video recordings ever made were stored on an old 78 rpm gramophone record. This was done sometime during the 1920s or 30s. The recorded signals were the same signals as were broadcast to the mechanical televisor, the predecessor of the TV. It wasn't until the 1950s that the first professional video recorders that could record “ordinary” electronic TV became useful.
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