Inventor of VHS

Charles Paulson Ginsburg led a team that developed the first videotape machine introduced in 1956. It was a reel-to-reel device. A VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) device that used video tape packaged in a closed cassette or cartridge format was developed years later in the 1970s by several companies. They were not compatible with each other. The JVC (The Japan Victor Company) VHS format prevailed over the others and was introduced in the use by RCA in 1977.