5. Read the text and translate it into Ukrainian.Use a dictionary if necessary.

Video Tape Recorder

In 1956, the first commercial reel-to-reel videotape recorder was created by Charles Ginsburg and Ray Dolby while working for the Ampex Corporation. This new device was a major development for television broadcasters because it marked the first time that shows could be recorded and broadcast later.

The VCR itself has two jobs: It must deal with the tape - an extremely thin, fairly fragile and incredibly long piece of plastic. It must read the signals off of the tape and convert them to signals that a TV can understand.

A video tape recorder (VTR), is a tape recorder that can record video material. When video recording was first invented, video was recorded onto individual tape reels, as were audio recordings. Loading a videotape reel required threading of the tape through rollers and across recording and playback heads onto a take-up reel. Reel-to-reel recorders have inherent problems of tape damage from hand-threading, tape media contamination due to threading with bare hands, and an exposed tape path contaminated by dust. A video recorder uses heads on a spinning drum to read and write diagonal tracks onto a moving tape.

The video cassette recorder (VCR), where the videotape is enclosed in a user-friendly videocassette shell, is the most familiar type of VTR known to consumers. The tape is pre-attached onto two reels enclosed within the cassette, and tape loading and unloading is automated. There is no need for the user to ever touch the tape, and the media can be protected from dust, dirt, and tape misalignments that could foul the recording mechanism. Typically the only time the user ever touches the tape in a videocassette is when a failure results in tape getting stuck in the mechanism.

Prior to the invention of the video tape recorder, live video was recorded onto motion picture film, in a process known as telerecording. And although the first Quadruplex VTRs recorded with good quality, the recordings could not be slowed or freeze framed, so telerecording processes were still used for about a decade after the development of the first VTRs.

Just as DVDs have replaced videocassettes, digital video recorders are replacing video cassette recorders. VCRs can be made compatible to record digital TV signals, digital video recorders come ready to do it. DVRs record their images onto a hard drive that will hold around 40 hours of video. It is essentially a computer whose sole function is to record and playback digital video. DVR tuner receives and decodes the digital signal, but you need to make sure it can work with however you receive their TV signal. Some signal providers will make you use their equipment to record TV. The signal is then stored on the hard drive, and sent to the TV screen if you want to view the images.

6. Find the answers to the questions that follow.

1. What is a camera used for?

2. Who invented the VTR?

3. How many jobs does the VCR have?

4. Where is the signal stored?

5. What does a DVR tuner receive?

6. What does a DVR tuner decode?

7. What was recorded onto individual tape reels?

8. What is a compact disc?

9. What does a USB flash drive consist of?