CHAPTER 36

VIDEO SYSTEMS

Video systems have become an essential part of the household entertainment. There are two main types of video systems. Paralleling their audio counterparts, there are tape-based systems and disc-based systems. With the tape-based video systems you can, in your own home, both record and playback television programs and your own electronically produced home movies. The disc-based systems, by and large, are for replay of pre-recorded material only.

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