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♪ ♪ ♪ the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? im not here now,...

♪ ♪ the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went in with pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? im not here now but my faithful ...

>> transformers and cabbage patch dolls may be the two top toy sellers this year, but for adults theres only one hot item, the vcr. >> christmas shoppers have again made the video cassette recorder one of the years hottest gifts for grown-ups. theyre selling at a rate of a million units per month. but the vcr is a lot more than a popular christmas gift. its an invention some say is changing the whole idea of television. >> there are so many inventions where you can trace their success back to th...

Their films lose their rerun value when theyre recorded on home videotape recorders and then played later. the movie studio said this violated the copyright laws and they sued the home recorder manufacturers for allegedly instigating widespread in the home law-breaking. >> you cannot have high class entertainment if 50 million taping machines are out there in an unauthorized fashion with no compensation to owners, taking from them what rightfully belongs to them. >> the supreme court today answe...

Parents 50th wedding anniversary, but you cant miss the steelers. what you do is set the timer on your recorder, pop in a tape, and watch the steel is where you get home. >> it just changed the paradigm of television. >> the makers of tv programs and movies shown on television claim their films lose their rerun value when theyre recorded on home videotape recorders and played later. the movie studios said this violated copyright laws and sued the home recorder manufacturers for allegedly instiga...

Television. >> the makers of tv programs and movies shown on television claim their films lose their rerun value when theyre recorded on home videotape recorders and then played later. the movie studio said this violated the copyright laws and they sued the home recorder manufacturers for allegedly instigating widespread in the home law-breaking. >> you cannot have high class entertainment if 50 million taping machines are out there in an unauthorized fashion with no compensation to owners, taki...

Their films lose their rerun value when theyre recorded on home videotape recorders and then played later. the movie studios said this violated copyright laws and sued the home recorder manufacturers for allegedly instigating widespread in the home lawbreaking. >> you cannot have high-class entertainment if 50 million taping machines are out there in an unauthorized fashion with no compensation to owners, taking from them what rightfully belongs to them. >> the supreme court today answered a mul...

It was a gorgeous, gorgeous machine. it provided you with the soundtrack to your life. >> transformers and cabbage patch dolls may be the two top sellers this year, but for adults theres only one hot item, the vcr. >> christmas shoppers have again made the video cassette recorder one of the years hottest get gifts for grown-ups. but the vcr is a lot more than a popular christmas gift. its an invention some say is changing the whole idea of television. >> there are so many inventions where you ca...

It was a gorgeous, gorgeous machine. it provided you with the soundtrack to your life. >> transformers and cabbage patch dolls may be the two top sellers this year, but for adults theres only one hot item, the vcr. >> christmas shoppers have again made the video cassette recorder one of the years hottest get gifts for grownups. but the vcr is a lot more than a popular christmas gift. its an invention some say is changing the whole idea of television. >> there are so many inventions where you can...

>> the makers of tv programs and movies shown on television claim their films lose their rerun value when theyre recorded on home videotape recorders and played later. the movie studios said this violated copyright laws and sued the home recorder manufacturers for allegedly instigating widespread in the home lawbreaking. >> you cannot have high-class entertainment if 50 million taping machines are out there in an unauthorized fashion with no compensation to owners, taking from them what rightful...