Why "Victor"? The JVC Story

[@vwestlife]

RCA was also the first to bring VHS to market in the USA in August 1977, even as they were still developing their CED Videodisc format which was eventually released in early 1981. RCA demanded that a longer-playing LP speed be added, and Panasonic, who was manufacturing the VCR for RCA, agreed to do that without JVC's permission. JVC got upset and in turn introduced the even slower EP/SLP speed. Due to this schism, for a long time JVC's VCRs had trouble playing the "unauthorized" LP speed, and Panasonic-made VCRs retained the LP speed even though most other brands skipped it in favor of EP -- except in Europe, where due to PAL's lower frame rate, LP became the norm and EP was rarely used because its quality was too low.

[@LittleCar]

I feel a vwestlife video about VCR video speeds coming (please!). BTW, In Europe we only had SP & LP. LP was twice SP.

[@yogibear2k220]

Thanks Vwestlife, I had always wondered why we never got EP speeds over here in the UK.

[@yogibear2k220]

@LittleCar Though I did see a video recorder in a charity shop about 35 years ago that had all three speeds, but I never picked it up. Now I wish I had! Very interesting video. Thank you!

[@vwestlife]

@@yogibear2k220 PAL EP mode did exist on some VCRs, but was rarely used because the quality is bad, and PAL LP mode already gives you about the same recording time as NTSC EP mode.

[@RUfromthe40s]

very true, it was ridiculous the SP velocity, older man at the time recorded john ford westerns in a 4 hours tape with 8 hours of time but image was very low quality and soundwas....what to call it?but kids didn´t mind as i found in my home a SP recorded tape with many pornographic movies, teens have a lot of taste in this type of cinematographic style and they ask why the right arm has a lot more muscle than the left one,when young at tuesday in a big screen theatre(imagine the size of some footage) i would watch with 8 of my friends all movies at tuesady night marcial arts night to my parents, it seems i was a bruce lee fan, in reality i don´t know if he was around at the time maybe a beginner in US movies

[@aaaaplay]

10:00 we had that exact Panasonic VHS player back in the day. Dad always complained that the Panasonic machines were overly loud compared to his prized JVC. I think he still has the JVC VHS player - which after some Googling I have concluded is likely a HR-D910EA based on childhood memories of the thing. My Nan still has her JVC HR-J6007UM which I can remember Dad setting up for her circa 2002. As someone with a 4K Blu-ray Player and an OLED, I haven't thought about VHS in a long time.

[@darrylfletcher2760]

I still love my 70’s (quad) and early 80’s JVC HiFi components. True quality.

[@gkjsooley]

Santa brought our family a JVC receiver and auto-reverse Dolby B&C cassette deck for Christmas in 1986 to be paired with the Dual turntable and Tandberg speakers which my Grandad passed on to us. That system still works perfectly today.

[@afriend9428]

*Santa is your dad!* 😂

[@gkjsooley]

No sh!t Sherlock...

[@alexandermikhailov2481]

Love this brand. I've been using a JVC turntable for almost 40 years - it requires no maintenance and runs like new. Thanks for a nostalgic video! ❤

[@davidewhite69]

my father bought some JVC gear in 1980, the amplifier, a "Super A" AX-2 has never given a single problem and still works as does the turntable and cassette deck.

[@martindooley4439]

Back in the 80s I had a JVC DC7L luggable boombox. Liner Tracking turntable and great sound The first car stereo I fitted myself was also a JVC. Good memories thanks for content

[@gwheregwhizz]

All those legendary names to kids of the 80s like Hitachi, Toshiba, Pioneer, JVC, Sharp, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Sanyo, Aiwa, Sansui, Kenwood, Technics, Canon, Nikon and even Sony. Japan lost their consumer electronics industry as fast as the UK lost their car industry and to kids of today, they are just names licensed to put on cheap Chinese radios and Turkish televisions.😢

[@jamesm90]

Panasonic TVs are still their own product if you buy a high quality model.

[@honestguy7764]

if you are Continental European, dont forget Grundig, Radiola, Saba, Dual, Thomson, Normende, Graetz etc etc…. Now you can buy a Gundig dishwaser and an AEG stereo….something very weird if back in the day….

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Sad. 😢

[@jasejj]

I wouldn't necessarily rule out a partial comeback of the Japanese companies in the coming decade... China's economy is creaking loudly just now and the big Chinese manufacturers are largely under the joint ownership of the Chinese state, and Japanese investment banks who also tend to own the Japanese electronics giants, who haven't gone away they've just moved to more profitable sectors for the most part. If China does reach the point where the government desperately needs the cash I can well see a day when these companies like TCL and HiSense, who have been buying up manufacturing lines and parents from the Japanese and Koreans at a ferocious rate, could end up under majority Japanese ownership. At that point the status quo is effectively restored.

[@dougbrowning82]

In N. America we still have the Victrola brand. It's owned by Innovative Technologies, and mainly used for cheap, Chinese record players.

[@thomosburn8740]

You missed my favorite innovation by JVC audio. Early in the development of their own cd players, their engineers were sending signals to a chipset from VHS tape. They discovered that three-quarter inch tape sounded worse than 1 inch tape through their primitive DAC. When they ran the same signal through an oscilloscope they discovered that the 1 inch tape produced a square wave pulse and the three-quarter inch tape signal (pulse) was rounded off. This made them realize that if the optical system within their machines was to have sharp delineation between on and off, one and zero, that their deck would have an easier time accurately reproducing the audio. Their solution was to make the laser within their CD players blink, with 2.83 ms between these blinks. They called this innovation “pulse edge modulation” and it meant that their sub $200 CD players sounded as good as the finest and heaviest competitor models on the market at the same time in the late 80s & early 1990s. Presumably the better chipsets that followed rendered this point moot, but when shopping for a CD player in 1992 I listened to around half a dozen on headphones and the JVC deck sounded profoundly better than any of the others under $700.

[@JuusoAlasuutari]

What is the significance of 2.83 ms?

[@spacemissing]

I've never heard of this before. It sounds like a backdoor solution to a front-door problem. I know enough about CDs and the way they work to say that it would have to be 2.83 microseconds, not milliseconds.

[@ata000001]

JVC was good in many areas. I used to have a big JVC hifi system I got at the late 80's/early 90's. Amplifier, 2 tape decks, tuner (which was featured in this video in a broschure pic), cd-player etc. I also had a JVC "walkman" which was super advanced, it was the smallest tape player at the time and still had auto reverse, dolby etc, it folded into smaller size when there was no tape in. Then I had a JVC car stereo which also was very advanced for it's time, it had touch screen with colour 20 years ago. Sadly it broke couple of years back. And I still have and use my JVC Super VHS ET dynamic drum VCR, HR-S-9700, the most advanced analog VHS VCR ever, it had every feature for VHS they ever invented but hand't removed anything yet (next year they started removing features to cut cost). I also still use the cd player and tape deck, they were really good quality. I have to say I liked my JVC equipment, even some of them failed over time (the amplifier, portable tape player and the car stereo).

[@rogerwilco5187]

Thanks for telling that very interesting history of JVC. My first video recorder was also the JVC one you had but mine was branded HMV, model HV1000. This was in Australia. I had to take out a loan to buy it as I'd only recently started working and VCRs were only available in speciality video stores. I loved that machine and I still have the instruction book for it.

[@teamracing6]

Thanks for the history. Always interesting and fascinating to learn these things. I've owned a few JVC products over the decades and have always been very satisfied.

[@davidewhite69]

I still have a JVC S-VHS HiFi deck sitting somewhere in a cupboard. At the time I bought it for its multi format capability, it could playback PAL, NTSC and even SECAM, and also for the better recording quality, (at the time in Australia no video hire places stocked a single movie on s-vhs, in fact I never saw a sing S-VHS pre-recorded movie in a hire store). Add to that the tv broadcast recording picture was definitely visibly better even on a standard tv, and at the time you couldnt buy stuff aired like 7 hours of the Bathurst 1000 motor race so recording the broadcast was the only option. At the time I was travelling overseas a bit with work, and came across some S-VHS pre recorded movies in PAL and HiFi Stereo, some even had the first version of Dolby surround sound, mainly in Malaysia and Singapore and NTSC S-VHS in the Philippines, even NTSC S-VHS looked better than standard PAL VHS. One place in Malaysia specialised in S-VHS recordings of Laser Disc movies, (pirated of course) and they looked quite good and I could get them for cheaper than a blank tape in Australia. Which brings me to this, IMO JVC shot themselves in the foot with the blank tape costs, selling for three times that of a standard vhs tape in Australia at the time, and was a big put off for potential buyers

[@susilgunaratne4267]

You forgot to mention JVC professional video camera business in early '80s to 2000. From the Saticon KY-2700, Plumbico KY- 95B to CCD KY -27, JVC video cameras had a high reputation on reliability & quality in professional world. Specifically KY - 95B was a 'super colour' one.

[@scofab]

One of my hobbies is restoring old Victor/JVC portables, right now I'm just finishing up a PC-55. Thanks for the history, very interesting. Regards.

[@bobhill3941]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video as I do all your videos on this second channel, exploring automotive-related things. I never knew about that "His master's voice" painting. My grandad had a smooth coated fox terrier named Pip in London in 1945 as a boy and a man came up to him, pointed at the dog and exclaimed "His master's voice!" Pointing at the dog.

[@phantomguard71]

Victor was also the first company in Japan to release a Metal-compatible cassette deck, and one of the oldest providers of cassette tapes, both as Pre-Recorded (1967) and Blank tapes(1968)

[@kbidols]

I like how you summarize the whole thing at the end. Not many channel are keen on doing it.

[@chrismurison-m8f]

interesting that you mention the BBC's Vera videotape system but have ignored the Ampex quadruplex machines introduced in 1956, though of course they were professional broadcast machines but were the first to use rotating heads to reduce tape speed which may have influenced JVC. Quadruplex went on to be used by the BBC until the mid 1980's when they were pensioned off.

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

Thanks for the company history! I sold JVC audio and video equipment in the 1990s. Now I know more then back then, lol. Funny how I sold those other brands like Denon too, great geek history, thanks.

[@skdevanytube]

So Awesome!! Thank you so very much for producing this video.

[@martinneumann7783]

It’s always nice to see some brochures in German language. A car stereo from JVC was a MUST! in the late 80’s and 90’s…

[@runoflife87]

Hmm that was an interesting story. Our first "foreign-made" TV and VHS recodrer were exactly from JVC. Both turned to be very reliable lasting for 10+ years.

[@wal]

Very informative video, thanks for the work put into making this

[@ronaldmmeijer1012]

Thx Little Car! I've been working for JVC for more then 37 years already but there were still some things I didn't know about my employer :)

[@Stefan-]

The VHS that was shown in 8:00 is the first one i used back in the day, i didnt realize at the time or until now even that it was actually the first one produced, i was only a kid back then. My first CD player that i bought in 1988 was actually a JVC CD changer with a 6 CD cartridge (JVC XL-M 500) and also a single tray so you could play a CD in the single tray while you changed the cartridge and vice versa.

[@J.Wick.]

JVC was always my choice for nearly everything in the 90s-00s. They always made great stuff. Usually on par or better than Sony, and almost always less $. Sad that they're not around much anymore. Japan made the best stuff. Much like the American stuff before it. Korea seems to have taken over, and are on the decline now. China next id imagine. Crazy how it goes in waves. Miss JVC.

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

I remember in the 90s when digital camcorders with miniscreens were so expensive, I could only ever dream of having one. Now that I hold that power in my pocket I don't even use it. Why would I need to record video, lol

[@jimclark7279]

My sister had a quad system. The spacious sound was interesting. I still today have two home systems with 4 speakers each. Since the 70's, thats how I like to listen.

[@Andersljungberg]

JVC has also pressed vinyl records. which is said to have good sound quality. They also made CDs with a technology called K2 They were supposed to sound better than regular CDs but could be played in regular CD players

[@RayGunn_SA1]

You have overlooked the Philips VCR system, which predated both those formats by a few years. I bought one, an N1502, on August 16, 1977, the day Elvis passed away. It cost me £600.00, which was a lot of money for a wage earner, but I just had to have one. I still have it in the loft and a load of tapes, as well as a later Philips NV1700.

[@cmdr.shurimal8980]

JVC's D-ILA 4K projectors have breathtaking picture quality, both in SDR and HDR. The black levels get almost to OLED levels and highlights in HDR are properly bright. Beats the absolute socks off of Sony and Xiaomi projectors I've had the pleasure to test against.

[@oldschoolman1444]

In 2005 I bought one of the last projection style 51" JVC TVs 1080p, at the time it was awesome but cost $1200. It lasted 10 years and only had to replace the bulb once before it bit the dust.

[@IsopropylRecordings]

Great video ❤🎉 I am a JVC scaveging fan still in the ruins of what used to be a empire.

[@davidewhite69]

you touched briefly on JVC's direct drive cassette recorders, but didnt mention their real achievement released that same time. in 1979 they released 'SuperA' amplifiers, class AB hifi amplifiers with extraordinary low THD and sounded as good as class A amplifiers but with class AB power efficiency, and quickly became renowned for their very clean and pleasant sound, at a reasonable price. But was SuperA really their technology? The Matsushita owned brand "Technics" released in the same year "New Class A" amplifiers, using very similar (some would say almost identical) circuitry as JVC's SuperA and with almost identical specifications, was there a bit of technology sharing? For a few years JVC's AX series of amplifiers were very successful and beautifully constructed, especially the AX-7 and AX-9, even the lower end AX-3 and 5 were well made, but sadly in the late 80s JVC switched to producing mainly low cost hifi (some would say it didnt deserve to have the hifi name) rather than higher class audio gear. Another thing they introduced in that era was turntable tonearms with electronically controlled servos, and was it a co-incidence that Denon also released that same technology and their turntables looked almost identical?

[@spacemissing]

I worked in a store that sold those JVC "Super A" products. They were well liked by a lot of customers, but to me they sounded harsh and metallic, like the screech of a file on the edge of a piece of aluminium. And later they proved to have some nasty technical faults that were hard to repair.

[@williamyeong69]

Love that you filled whatever point missed by Techmoan.

[@Klutch58Customs]

We had that rebrand JVC video recorder too! I swear it had a clutch you had to push before changing into FF it was that heavy and mechanical!

[@LittleCar]

It was amazing to be able have TV on your own schedule.

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

That's funny about Nipper listening to an edison machine. I had no idea - love that painting. Thanks for sharing .

[@chrislemaster2695]

I remember JVC audio decks in the 1990's cassette and CD players. I had a JVC VCR an tracks JVC home audio and they were quite decent for the price point. Here in the USA they sold VCR/Beta Max Tapes recordable 8 tracks cassette tapes floppy disc both big and small dupicator cassettes tapes

[@static-san]

I had a JVC S-VHS deck (relative to the one showed, in fact). Loved it. Used it for many years, basically until TV here went digital. Likewise, had a JVC TV that was a wonderful pair. That, I used until it irrepairably died. The S-VHS format was technically great, but JVC couldn't convince people to upgrade. And of course had exactly the same problem with D-VHS and D-Theater.

[@yamakawa511]

I still have my JVC KD-A33 cassette deck not that it gets much use these days but lets me play my old tapes when the mood takes me. You didn't mention JVC's proprietary noise reduction technology ANRS and SANRS which were competitors to the Dolby technology of the day. Y

[@IntyMichael]

My first video camera was the JVC GR7 which you can see briefly in the video. It was to expensive back then but my father was lucky to win it in a price draw. Later I got me a JVC camera with DV and used it with my first Mac and the first iMovie. That was a giant leap in home video editing.

[@beograd07]

I was watching this video and listening to your voice on Bose Acoustimass 5 speakers connected to JVC-S10 Stereo Integrated Amplifier. The only problem with this amp after so many years of working hours is the switch for tape from Source to Monitor which input I use from my computer. It has dirty contacts but I am too lazy to open it and clean it or replace the switch. I will get around it one day, but the amp is always turned on 24/7 even when the computer is off. Never missed the beat and sound is excellent. Years ago I bought 2+1 computer speaker system Creative Gigaworks T3 to replace my computer sound system when this JVC amp dies. Well there is unopened Creative box still sitting on the shelf in my computer room while this little JVC amp is laughing at it.

[@Hodenkat]

I still love my JVC GZ-EX210 camcorder I bought in 2012 and it records 1080 HD very well. What I like about it besides it's compact size and many features is the audio. I find that even with no external microphone jack, it still records very nice audio from it's build-in mics. It's been my only camcorder for over 10 years and has helped me start my own KZbin channel!

[@ihgday6103]

Really interesting history of these brands. I remember the early VHS players in the UK being the Ferguson Videostar. Just checked out Ferguson's history and that's pretty interesting too. Didn't realise the brand is still being used today!

[@LittleCar]

That might be a fun one to cover.

[@andreaabout]

Really interesting to know the origins and history of JVC. I have a JVC car radio/CD player with USB & Bluetooth and works great, upgraded from my old JVC unit with skipped on CD over rough roads, OK it was in my kit car LOL! I don`t know much about their Hi-Fi back in the day although I think their speakers had a good reputation. That direct drive cassette deck seems interesting. Did it really sound better? Thanks again for the great video.

[@corgiverse9550]

Honestly JVC is probably my favorite japanese electronics company. VHS-C cameras are great and their audio gear was always great. Now they're audio is merged with kenwood who was always my favorite car audio brand too.. kinda wild to thank about. JVC camcorders are the peak though

[@istvanvilmos8400]

Many on KZbin that Laserdisc was a failure yet it wasn't in Japan, Hong Kong, France, Germany and the United States to a degree.

[@Mentski]

JVC themselves don't sell rebranded stuff, they licence their name out to retailers. Curry's have the licence to slap JVC on to OEM TVs in the UK, for example. The problem is, of course, that it's come to dilute their brandname somewhat.

[@dervwfahrer]

That is my second Passion. Cars and Hifi-Electronics

[@LittleCar]

I'm with you!

[@whyyoulidl]

Me three 🙂

[@dosgos]

JVC makes some world-class earbuds, like the HA-FW10000 and the HA-FW02. They are among the very best earbuds in the world. JVC made some great portable headphone amps but I think they stopped production a few years ago.

[@PakiNewsNetwork]

Very informative! Thank you.

[@zuti071]

It's such a shame that old brands like JVC, Toshiba, Sharp, Grundig, Telefunken now make and sell products just to compete in bottom end of cheap consumer electronics.

[@olavstrand2491]

Great video! I thought it actually was another Matsushita subsidiary, Technics, that introduced direct drive cassette players based on the technology used in their brilliant line of direct drive turntables.

[@Andersljungberg]

Note that it probably took a long time even for hi-fi VHS to break through. The first one probably came somewhere between 1986 and 1988. but it wasn't until perhaps the beginning of the 90s that more people started to buy such?

[@whyyoulidl]

And there was me thinking "I'm sure he means 'Matsui', Dixon's finest 😆..."

[@mattmatthews5414]

One of my best riding vintage bicycles is a Panasonic- better even than my Carlton Raleighs, surprisingly. A video on all of Panasonic’s broad spread & expertise would be entertaining.

[@ThatAnnoyingGuyFrom]

Growing up born '82 my parents had both Sony and NEC beta max video recorders. Like many other appliances that died or were too sick to repair many components ended up interleaved into my Mechano kit. Come ~'89 brand forgotten we got our 1st VHS and dial units for a few years as video rental stores still had Beta and all the blank/reused tapes my dad used to record The Bill. I personally purchased a JVC combo SVHS/VHS/DVD/videoCD player back in 2000 and it was a pleasure to own. Worked well with my mostly TDK tapes and it had onboard memory frame buffer akin to a diskman to prevent many errors when recording SVHS or frame drops from scratched disk's.

[@stewartstewart777]

I'm watching this on my new JVC QLED TV which is fantastic.

[@UHF43]

Nice little JVC boombox there in the background, it's the RC-QW35 model.

[@DumpoDeluxe]

JVC boomboxes its cool "very cool" Really nice boomy and clear powerful sound. (Very impressive! a lot of ghettoblasters had awful sound) And allmost unstoppable

[@LittleCar]

I remember trialing all the ones in the shop. I use a couple of tracks to see how it shifts bass effectively - "Sweet Dreams are made of this" by the Eurythmics, and the start of "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen. The JVC sounded the best, and still works well today, although I got a lot of orange paint on it years ago while painting a room, and had to clean it up before I put it behind me!

[@andygozzo72]

those jvc video machines in the uk were mostly sold under the 'ferguson' brand name, they did quite a lot of stuff for ferguson, i have several models of the later push button vhs machines,

[@stevengagnon4777]

Those direct drive capstan tape decks were good sounding. The JVC DD-7 cassette deck I picked up from a thrift store. Still making good tapes after tens of thousands of hours. It's been a real work horse as it spent a lot of time in a bicycle shop that I was working at as a mechanic. The speed accuracy and precision is excellent and never needed to be corrected. Those Sendust Alloy heads are still in great shape. This one was built to last. Yeah it's working fine ...new blank tapes another story. Hey TDK are you out there....please bring back some of your blanks ...I'd be happy if the Dynamic series was available. The DD-7 seemed to really like them.

[@JR0BAK]

"Victor" and "His master's Voice" trademark rights are very complex. Root of the rights is same, but now it consider to be indivisual rights in Japan and US. I heard a rumor, when a man import a old SP record disk from US to Japan, it may be stopped at a custom because of trademark violation.

[@nr5494]

Fascinating story. I lived through it and hadn’t heard of half the formats. Had to pause at the 2/3 way through point though due to a 3 letter acronym overload, or TLAO.

[@LittleCar]

Now you've got me trying to make TLAO a three letter acronym!

[@sapereaude391]

I've never heard of the 'VX' format. I was a teenager when video recorders were becoming popular and I remember wanting Video 2000 to become the standard - partially because I liked the futuristic name (I thought that Beta sounded second grade and VHS was my second choice) but mainly because Video 2000 cassettes were two-sided. I'm not sure that VX and Video 2000 are the same thing but I never heard any mention of VX back then. Also, when I first learned video editing in the mid 80s, it was on a linear U-matic suite. In the 90s, I was asked by an acquaintance if I could help them make a film using a U-matic camera that they had been given by filmmaker Ken Loach. When I went to take a look, it was a real monster with umbilical cords which would require three people to operate in the field, a camera operator, somebody to carry/operate the recorder and somebody to carry the battery.

[@Alan-megan]

Lovely informative video

[@LordofKings-Raj]

Excellent information ❤❤❤

[@energymc22]

Thanks for the great video as always! Does anyone know which model is shown at 15:15? This was our first (short lived) VCR. My dad brought it back (tax free) from a business trip somewhere in the UAE probably about '87 or so. We had nowhere to put it yet so he parked it on top of the TV. I couldn't resist playing with it until I pushed a tape in and off the whole thing went, falling behind the TV and smashing into pieces 😭 Funnily I remember all the text on the unit was in German... But if anyone knows which model this is I'd love to know.

[@LittleCar]

Sorry, I don't know.

[@nickwallette6201]

The lessons companies repeatedly fail to learn: You are far more successful if you ) work together, instead of trying to corner the market with your own proprietary product; ) license things aggressively, rather than trying for exclusivity or extravagant royalties; ) maintain backward compatibility, instead of disregarding customer investments and existing convenience for something "better."

[@LittleCar]

You should tell Apple that!

[@38911bytefree]

What a Crazy story. Good Vid !!!!

[@Thefreakyfreek]

All our equipment used to be jvc at home from tv to remote Now i need to look real deep for any of that

[@pizzalover3]

Very interesting thank you

[@jeffking4176]

I’m a vintage radio collector [ as well as an Auto Detailer]. I did not know much of this. Interesting. COOL‼️ 🚗📻🙂

[@solracer66]

In 1995 I purchased a Victor SVS-C component camera system from a woman I met who worked for JVC Holland. It had been developed in Japan around 1991 I think and had a small separate camera, miniature recording deck, attachable LCD video screen and other related accessories that all fitted into a silver briefcase. A friend of mine had purchased one a couple of years earlier to use like a GoPro is used today. JVC Holland had been sent one for evaluation but had decided not to offer it so that unit was surplus. Since she was coming to America on holiday anyway and as we had already agreed to meet it was easy to arrange for her to bring it along. Frankly I was far more interested in her than the camera but it was a nice bonus! I used it for many years until better digital systems came along and it definitely helped vs the competition and was useful for making race highlight music videos. Nowadays a GoPro can accomplish all that but in 1995 it was revolutionary.

[@Rob2]

I guess we all expected that to end in "we have now been married for 25 years"...

[@solracer66]

@@Rob2 We did have a brief relationship but the logistics of a very long distance relationship were quite different back then so it did not work out. Oddly in 2012 I did find myself in a long distance relationship with a European woman and we've now been married 10 years. Without Skype and all the social media that exists now that probably would not have happened.

[@spuwho]

Not many people are aware but JVC was a leader in supplying the OEM market for the 8mm DDS helical scan data backup hardware. Using a SCSI interface they were considered the most reliable and longest lasting tape backup hardware in the market. Better than the DDS founder Exabyte. Due to their reliability, they stayed on the market until JVC stopped supplying updated system drivers to the OEM's and backup system companies. If not for their financial purges, they would have developed the most reliable data backup hardware over AIT and LTO. It upset a lot of IT admins when they were forced to e-waste these drives even though they still operated fault free.

[@glassowlie]

Nipper was also used for RCA and the UK media retailer HMV.

[@wonseok_song]

I like you actually re-recorded the audio for correction. Some people just add captions.

[@LittleCar]

The corrections were truly embarrassing!

[@garagetube2830]

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[@LittleCar]

You're right - there are a lot of them to cover! I'd like to look into some of them.

[@gerardy7500]

Back in the 90's JVC was a popular brand. Don't see much of their products around these days.

[@fsfs555]

I don't know why they insist on being weird with their naming: in Japanese, the name is essentially Nippon Victor Company. They couldn't use Nippon and go with NVC, like Nippon Telegraph and Telephone or Nippon Electric Company did? Or go with the first-syllable thing that Denon (DENki ONkyo) or Toshiba (TOkyo SHIBAura Denki) did? JVC makes sense, I suppose, but then where does the English "Victor Company of Japan" come from? Just call it "Japan Victor Company," but no, I guess that's not quirky enough for them. VHS is Video Home System. Why not HVS, which would make more sense? Then there's VHD, Video High Density. What does that even mean? It's not an improvement on a prior low-density video disc format. It's not even much better than contemporary video formats: It's a VHS-quality video disc "inspired" by CED with the same 60 minutes/side capacity as both CED and Laserdisc (in most cases). If it was intended to be a multi-function format, as is suggested in its history, they should've just called it Super Versatile Disc or something actually descriptive in the way UMatic, Laserdisc, Betamax, CED, or Video8 were named. Naming quirks aside, they did make some good stuff. A lot of it is underrated and so can be had inexpensively compared to similar stuff made by rivals.

[@norahjaneeast5450]

Always thought JVC which is the Japanese Victor Company was related to RCA Victor Company so I hope they explain this well

[@djjoeykmusic]

Great video Thank you 🙏🏾

[@BConsiglio100]

Currently watching this on my JVC fire tv 😁

[@FG-gu9rn]

Very avesome and educational video 😍 I have a request for the next video: try making a video on DivX (I’m talking about the media codec), which began its life on DVDs, but it stretched out to media players and other gadgets/devices which were capable of playing video/movie files). Also you should mention that the DivX compatible DVD players based off a Mediatek SoC (system on a chip) we’re considered the best players ever due to its capability of taking modded, unofficial firmwares which can make some really nice changes to the player itself, such as changing the font colors and adding foreign languages, everything that you can imagine! 😊 Also you should say the reason why it didn’t got popular in the US whilst being a success overseas, probably because of the confusion of the rental format made by Circuit City…but, it’ll be nice to see that kind of a video on your channel!

[@LittleCar]

Not a bad idea - thx!

[@FG-gu9rn]

@@LittleCaryou’re welcome!

[@LittleCar]

I took a look. Not sure I could do it justice. There's not a lot of drama in there - they made a codec, it was successful (well they had to re-engineer it to get around copyright). I'm surprised they used the same name as the Circuit City product (which came earlier).

[@infographie]

Excellent.

[@abdelkaioumbouaicha]

📝 Summary of Key Points: 📌 JVC, originally known as the Victor Talking Machine Company, was founded in New Jersey and became famous for its "His Master's Voice" logo. 🧐 Victor Talking Machine Company faced challenges with the introduction of wireless radio but improved its recordings using electrical microphones and amplifiers. 🚀 Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan was founded in 1927 but faced financial difficulties during the war and changed its name to Nippon Onkyo Company. 🚀 JVC focused on producing radios and speakers after the war but later began selling records again. 🚀 JVC developed its first video tape recorder in 1959, revolutionizing the industry. 🚀 JVC collaborated with Matsushita and Sony to create the U-Matic video cassette standard in 1971. 🚀 JVC introduced direct-drive cassette decks and DAT recorders in the 1980s. 🚀 JVC's most significant success came with the introduction of the VHS format, winning the format war against Sony's Betamax. 🚀 JVC struggled with the DVD format due to financial constraints and the lack of success of previous disc formats. 🚀 JVC merged with Kenwood in 2008 and primarily sells car entertainment systems, rebranded TVs, headphones, and projectors. 💡 Additional Insights and Observations: 💬 "His Master's Voice" logo featuring a dog named Nipper listening to his deceased owner's voice. 📊 JVC's VHS format won the format war against Sony's Betamax. 🌐 References: Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA, Tokyo Electric, Toshiba, Matsushita, Sony, U-Matic video cassette standard, Laserdisc, VHD, Kenwood. 📣 Concluding Remarks: JVC, originally founded in New Jersey, has a long history in the audio and video industry. From its success with the "His Master's Voice" logo and the adoption of the VHS format to its struggles with financial constraints and disc formats, JVC has experienced both triumphs and challenges. Today, the company continues to produce audio products and focuses on car entertainment systems, rebranded TVs, headphones, and projectors. Generated using Talkbud (Browser Extension)

[@stephenholland5930]

Ampex produced the first videotape recorder in 1956, the VR-1000.

[@randolphblack2554]

I miss the days when JVC cassette decks were available and provided above average performance. I now understand why they produce what they do now. I have no interest in projectors but I wish JVC/Matsushita luck in their future endeavors.

[@gotham61]

Helical scan was invented by Ampex, and was first demonstrated in 1956. Well before JVC. By the time VERA was developed to a point where it was usable, it was already obsolete.

[@LittleCar]

JVC were the first to do two head helical scan.

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

Well done

[@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY]

Also have VICTOR radio receicer from Japan (100V).

[@bingdong8571]

As small as they've become they are the absolute top dog for home cinema projectors today. I only wish i could afford one.

[@SrdjanPoznanovic]

06:14 "Have a ball" 😄😄😄

[@neilforbes416]

RCA had *NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER* to licence out a trademark which they themselves had no legitimate right to use(2:55). The HMV trademark had, by 1939 become one of two *flagship* trademarks of *EMI(The Gramophone Co.) Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex England* which was created by the merger of The Gramophone Co. with the Columbia Graphophone Company which brought into the mix not only their Columbia brand, but also the Parlophone brand, seized as war booty after WW1 from a Dutch trading company. HMV, Columbia and Parlophone being *SOLELY OWNED* by EMI.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Clark W. Griswold's video camera in European Vacation was a JVC.

[@cameraprepper7938]

So, will you also cover the stories of fx Sony, Panasonic and other big electronic companies ?

[@LittleCar]

Hopefully one day. Other brands would be interesting to explore.

[@robertholt4409]

I remember when VHS came out, somehow I found the physical cartridge more appealing than the physical Beta cartridge. I bought a VCR that used VHS and I never used Beta at all.

[@nickwallette6201]

Well yeah, the Beta tapes had that weird eye patch. :-)

[@Csnumber1]

Not sure how it was possible that they dropped Camcorder Production when in 2015 JVC Kendwood acquired AltaSens, and Camera sensor company and introduced the first Super 35 4k Sensor, Camcorder, the GY-LS300!!? And since have produced a successful line of Professional Camcorders.

[@Zockopa]

Well,i miss their hifi products. They made good quality gear. Especially amplifiers and turntables.

[@tee-jaythestereo-bargainph2120]

I remb paying $550 in 1990 for A JVC rx307 2ch receiver I loved it !!

[@alextea]

I remember Philips sold out video format V-2000 similar VHS on 70-80’s.

[@Shamol]

9.15: the one on the right was our first family camcorder ❤

[@pqrstzxerty1296]

" The RCA Victor Company " split the company and it became " Serco " and the other half " Sony Music ".