Who was the market for the JVC CR-6x00U?

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Someone's waving a CR-6300U at me for not too much money but I'm a little confused on who on earth JVC was selling this to.
I already own a Sony VO-2600 but that is clearly a studio machine since it's your standard functionality Umatic top-loader with record functionality and not a lot else. This JVC unit however has a UHF/VHF tuner and a clock, presumably for at least a single-event timed recording mode. Two things in a studio environment you would of never need.
In 1976 JVC had also just started marketing VHS the same year with the same features. (okay it has a digital clock rather than analog) The CR-6300 new seems to of been around $1900, while the HR-3300 VHS deck was supposedly around $1200 (I can't find a reliable source on the price). Was shipping a consumer-grade Umatic deck a stopgap for VHS or were they aiming at upper-class households and educational institutions such as schools where the content being recorded wasn't always going to be a composite camera feed?