EOTO Presentation Reflection

One of the EOTO’s that was presented to us was the VCR. Since the VCR  isn’t as popular now as it once was, it was cool to learn a little bit about it and how it came to be as a whole. The VCR is a machine that plays tapes like movies and tv shows. VCR’s became available to people in the 1990s and early 2000s. The VCR was invented by Charles Ginsburg in 1956. The VCR changed how people looked at social media and how they interacted with others. Before mainstream VCRs, television was restricted to a small range of channels. You were at the mercy of whatever the broadcaster wanted to play, including when they wanted to broadcast a show. In other words, home entertainment options were limited, and the viewer had no control over this. VHS tapes changed matters because you could buy a movie at the store, and rather than going to the cinema, you could create your own entertainment.