Then: Recording directly to VHS tapes was groundbreaking.
Now: Who needs tapes?
JVC developed the very first videocassette recorder way back in 1976, and it became a leader in the VHS camcorder world shortly after that—even Marty McFly takes one of JVC’s units with him on his trip in Back to the Future. VHS may now be resting comfortably in a freshly dug grave, but JVC continues its leadership as a top-notch developer of home video gadgetry. The latest JVC Everio camcorder has no need for tape, instead storing video to a 60GB hard drive (or removable flash storage card) in full high-definition, outputting 1080p at 60 frames per second. Even better: Enhanced color resolution lets the Everio capture 100 percent of the color range that the eye can detect. Traditional camcorders can reproduce only a meager 55 percent of the human-viewable color palette.