- published: 19 Jan 2010
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The videocassette recorder (or VCR, also known as the video recorder), is a type of electro-mechanical device that uses removable videocassettes that contain magnetic tape for recording analog audio and analog video from broadcast television so that the images and sound can be played back at a more convenient time. This facility afforded by a VCR machine is commonly referred to as television program Timeshifting. Most domestic VCRs are equipped with a television broadcast receiver (tuner) for TV reception, and a programmable clock (timer) for unattended recording of a certain television channel at a particular time. These features began as simple mechanical counter-based single event timers, but were later replaced by multiple event digital clock timers that afforded greater flexibility to the user. In later models the multiple timer events could be programmed through a menu interface that was displayed on the playback TV screen. This allowed multiple programs to be recorded easily, and this particular feature of the video recorder quickly became a major selling point and benefit to people working unsociable hours who usually missed many television broadcasts. With the VCR being a main way to watch movies the remote control improved the VCR. The craze of the VCR, became bigger because now one had more of a control of what they wanted to watch. One could create personal libraries on what to watch.
Actors: Tony Plana (actor), Roddy Piper (actor), Bennah Burton-Burtt (miscellaneous crew), Malcolm McDowell (actor), Robert Sommer (actor), Mickey Knox (actor), Charles Band (producer), Robert Carradine (actor), Ben Vereen (actor), Michael Winslow (actor), Imogene Coca (actress), Imogene Coca (actress), Fred Travalena (actor), Robert Boris (director), Bert Glatstein (editor),
Plot: Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. and runs it from the prison under the noses of the warden and the guards. But when the IRS and SEC begin to investigate this successful company, it looks like he may be in trouble again.
Keywords: accidental-suicide, bare-chested-male, computer, embezzlement, framed, independent-film, innocent-man, investment, newspaper, prison