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Old 02-15-2014, 08:46 AM
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VTR or VCR

Last summer at an estate sale, I scored an 86 woodgrain Zenith 19" with keypad tuner as well as a Japanese made VHS VTR, also woodgrain, both free. This VTR weighs a ton and has a remote control's worth of buttons on it (but no remote) It came with the owners manual. The TV works great but I haven't tried the VTR yet. Just curious, what's the difference between a VTR and a VCR, or is it just a different way to say the same thing?

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Old 02-15-2014, 09:16 AM
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"You sat Tomato, I say Tomahto, Let's call the whole thing off..." That's about all the difference I know of..
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Old 02-15-2014, 09:51 AM
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"You sat Tomato, I say Tomahto, Let's call the whole thing off..." That's about all the difference I know of..
You must listen to one of those easy-listening stations. They seem to play that one a lot.
I think that Sony used the VTR term, even after the cassette formats came out. It probably was from the days of the R-to-R recorders.
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I always used VTR to refer to units that used loose tape on reels that you had to manually thread (1/2" EIAJ, 1", 2" quadruplex, etc.).

VCR properly refers to units that take tape in pre-packaged, self-threading cassettes, such as U-matic, betamax/betacam , 8mm, and VHS.
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Strictly speaking, "video tape recorder" versus "video cassette recorder". VTR refers to any or all video recorders that use tape, VCR refers to only the ones that use cassettes (as N2IXK said)..
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