1st Demonstration of the Original VCR

From April 2011: Tony, Donna and Ed go back to Apr. 14, 1956, the date of the first demonstration of the videotape recorder. Invented by Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson, the first such machine was originally the size of a piano and could record both images and sound. CBS purchased three of these videotape recorders in 1956 for $75,000 apiece.

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