Sentences with phrase «of vcr»

I was much more entertaining as «The Gadgeteer» on the Discovery Channel's «Home Matters» program all those years ago, which reminds me that I still need to convert all of those VCR tapes to DVDs when I leave my personal papers to one of those online universities.

Think of it like Google building its own brand of VCR in the early days of videotapes.

It seems that paper checks are going way of the VCR these days.

While others call it reminiscent of a VCR and hate its size, I see it as an incredibly simple and effective form factor which conveys what seems to be concern for good airflow (the bane of the Xbox 360) and makes it clear that the machine needs a lot of space to keep cool.

The thing hasn't even been released yet and it's overheating, un removable HDD it's the size of a VCR with a power brick, double A battery packs proprietary headset chords, gpu has half the power as the ps4 gpu.

Traditional cash registers will continue to follow the footsteps of the VCR this coming year.

It reminds me of the early days of VCR's and video rental stores.

Do you ever think we'll see a day when actual printed books go the way of the VCR tape?

Fifteen years ago, I would have had to keep my finger on the record button of my VCR remote and pray for it to air.

By one estimate, as many as 40 per cent of VCR owners consume porn in their homes (a figure thought to represent 9 per cent of all American households) It is estimated that the porn business involves some $ 8 to 10 billion annually.

The dialogic communication flow breaks out of the tyranny of controlled one - way programmed media, It is possible that the incredible popularity of the VCR is directly related to the desire latent within us to control our own programming content and our viewing time - frame.

They said it again with the arrival of the VCR.

This will freeze a patent infringement action which Kodak had filed against Sony as a test case before seeking royalties from the other major manufacturers of VCRs and camcorders.

After another 14 years, VHS officially died when the last manufacturer of VCRs shut their doors.

Instead of seeing what we thought we were going to see, we saw a warehouse full of VCRs duplicating copies of various kinds of pre-existing movies, X-rated and otherwise.

Not exact matches

It involved encoding an eight - hour VCR tape and streaming replays of radio casts to see if anyone really cared.

I swear I can go to my mother - in - law's house, grab a recording of Ghostbusters from 1987, plug it in her VCR, and enjoy Bill Murray for the 75th time.

«I got one of the first VCRs ever made, in the»70s,» he recalls.

That was the VCR, because, before VCRs, your only alternative, if you wanted to see a movie, was either to go out to a movie theater or to watch what was on one of three networks.

Peep - show booths that ran film loops came first, then camcorders and VCRs — many of which were invented in Japan, but adopted first in the United States by porn directors.

Perhaps one day consumers will look back and laugh at the solar panels of today the way we laugh at the giant early - day computers or VCRs.

Just as when VCRs, DVD players and smartphones first hit the market, the first version of Google Glass will be vastly improved upon in the subsequent generations to come.

Porn has been at the forefront of every modern leap from VCRs to the Internet, but Web 2.0, dominated by these tube and file - sharing sites, is the first technology in a century that pornographers have failed to exploit.

It took five years of litigation, but eventually, the Supreme Court finally decided in 1984 that VCRs were lawful devices.

For example, in 1979, Universal Studios sued Sony, arguing that the company's newfangled piece of technology — the VCR — should be made illegal, because it was «a tool of piracy.»

Not only do Japanese manufacturers of tv sets and vcr's own rock stars and movie vaults, but Apple and IBM have collaborated with Motorola in creating a new generation of microchip.

(R - rated films on cable's various movie channels are easily available to children of any age who know how to program their VCRs, or whose parents don't care what they watch on cable.)

On one hand there is a growing diversity of sources: cable television, satellite broadcasting, VCR, desk - top publishing.

Or we treat racism like an outmoded technology, hoping that it will go the way of the rotary phone, the cassette tape and the VCR.»

The Church's loveliest and most accessible service, Evensong, was killed off in many parishes because, in the days before VCRs, worshippers preferred to watch a dramatization of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga on TV.

As one who remembers life without indoor plumbing, television, computers, telephones, VCRs and microwaves, I know how easily things once considered luxuries of the few become necessities for the masses.

I apologize for the poor quality of the video... it was pulled off a VCR tape from 1993.

The Capri, which is located at the opposite end of the city's main street, is also a good option if you're into midcentury - modern kitsch: The grounds are lit in blue and purple neon, and the lobby has a collection of VHS tapes you can check out to watch in your in - room VCR.

Who carries five VCRs on road trips and watches tape of her opponents while she works out on the treadmill while she scribbles points of emphasis on a notepad while she talks on the phone with an assistant — all after she has read a book to her son, Tyler, and put him to bed?

It's not unusual for a batter to run to the clubhouse VCR after one of his at bats.

Popping a cassette into a VCR, Milbury proceeded to narrate in language as blue as the Maple Leafs» road sweaters a stream of unpenalized Toronto transgressions.

Paul refers to many of the 2008 Hornets as «VCR friends,» because they can pause communication for six months and pick up where they left off.

Secure heavy furniture or appliances like computer, TV, VCR etc. so they don't topple onto your baby as a result of pulling or climbing.

But the frequencies of Teletext and Audetel signals are too high for current VCRs to record reliably.

One of the documents was the service manual for Sony's own Betamax VCR.

He teamed up with Robert Seder of the Vaccine Research Center (VCR) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and scientists at other labs to test immune responses to the vaccine in animals.

The pack feeds a video signal from a TV tuner, VCR or camcorder to a small colour LCD screen mounted inside the top of the spectacles, from where it is picked up by a prism and a lens.

Buist's colleague, environmental engineer David Dickins, hoists a VCR - size chunk of sea ice above his head and points to the columns that stripe its surface.

Back when I was a teenager we had a thunder storm and lightning struck our house destroying two tvs, all of our landline phones, a vcr, at least one of our garage door openers and my computer.

More recently, technological developments from the VCR to the (pre-internet era) personal computer have been enlisted, with varying degrees of success, in an effort to connect people with romantic partners.2

Every monday, I get to set my VCR and turned it into DVD transfer, tuned to the USA Network, watching all of the best matches, the best storylines, and the best wrestlers from the early years started to raise hell.

Some parts of Grim are simply lost, buried beneath the sands of time or probably, like, some cobweb - strewn boxes of old Star Wars VCR tapes.

Before I knew that I wanted to be a filmmaker though, around when I was sixteen and moved out of my mother's house — she had a new boyfriend and I couldn't be there anymore — I was living alone but I had a VCR with a tape of Ordinary People.

There is one telling scene in which a group of people are watching a video of crash scenes, and the VCR malfunctions and accidentally freeze - frames the tape just before a car hits another car.

Turn off your VCR, plug in your video game cabinet, and get ready to experience all of the thrills of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, releasing May 1, 2013 as a stand - alone digital title.