0 a machine used to record and play television programmes or films on videocassettes: --
They still have an old VCR.
1 a VCR --
In 1998 television sets, videocassette recorders, videocassettes, audiocassettes, and satellite dishes were outlawed in order to enforce the prohibition.
Collins watched the movie on a videocassette recorder in his hotel room and agreed to appear on the soundtrack.
The growing popularity and availability of videocassette recorders inspired the growing trade of the video rental shops, which in turn accelerated a decline in cinema audiences.
Some complexes gave free videocassette recorders to renters who signed leases for one year.
Improved formats, in which the tape was contained inside a videocassette, were introduced around 1969; the machines which play them are called videocassette recorders.
They were mostly purchased by actors and directors to use as records and examples of their work before the advent of videocassette recorders.
Fan videos made using videocassette recorders soon followed.
Television news recorded using videocassette recorders was easier to edit, duplicate and distribute.
