Victor Company of Japan, Limited 日本ビクター株式会社
Type	Corporation TYO: 6792
Founded	Yokohama, Japan (1927)
Headquarters	Yokohama, Japan
Key people	Masahiko Terada, President
Industry	Electronics
Products	Audio, visual, computer-related electronics and software, media products
Revenue	840 billion Yen (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2005)
Employees	34,493 (Consolidated, as of March 31, 2005)
Slogan	The Perfect Experience
Website	JVC Global

Victor Company of Japan, Limited (日本ビクター株式会社, Nippon Bikutā Kabushiki-gaisha^?) (TYO: 6792 ), usually referred to as JVC, is an international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927. The company is best known for introducing Japan's first televisions, and developing the VHS video recorder. Image File history File links JVC logo, claiming fair use This work is copyrighted. ... Corporate redirects here. ... The Tokyo Stock Exchange ), or TSE, is one of the largest stock exchange markets in the world by monetary volume located in Tokyo, Japan, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. ... For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links Red_Arrow_Down. ... Japanese 10 yen coin (obverse) showing Phoenix Hall of Byodoin Yen is the currency used in Japan. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... The Tokyo Stock Exchange ), or TSE, is one of the largest stock exchange markets in the world by monetary volume located in Tokyo, Japan, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. ... link titleThe word international can mean: Between nations or encompassing several nations. ... Corporate redirects here. ... For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by...

History

1920s - 1960s

JVC was founded in 1927 as "The Victor Company of Japan" as a subsidiary of the United States' leading phonograph and record company, the Victor Talking Machine Company. In 1929 majority ownership was transferred to RCA-Victor. In the 1930s JVC produced phonographs and records, but in 1932 JVC started producing radios, and in 1939 they introduced Japan's first TV. JVC severed relations with its foreign partners during World War II, and since 1953, JVC has been owned by Matsushita, who holds a majority stake in the company. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ... The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour as a 33 â…“ LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc. ... Victor logo with the famous Nipper dog. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... RCAs logo as seen today on many products. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000,000 Civilian dead: 4,000,000 Total dead 12,000,000 World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Logo for the Panasonic brand Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ...

1970s - 1980s

JVC developed the VHS format, and introduced the first VHS recorders to the consumer market in 1976 for the equivalent of US $1060. Sony who had introduced the Betamax home videocassette tape a year earlier, became the main competitor to JVC's VHS into the 1980s creating the videotape format war. The Betamax cassette was smaller and better quality than the VHS cassette and had less recording time. By 1984, forty companies utilized the VHS format in comparison with Betamax's twelve. Sony tacitly conceded defeat in 1988 when they also began producing VHS recorders. Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The video cassette recorder (or VCR, less popularly video tape recorder) is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... The videotape format war was a period of an intense format war of rival incompatible models of video cassette recorders in the 1970s and early 1980s. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1970 JVC marketed the Videosphere, a modern portable CRT television inside a space helmet shaped casing with an alarm clock at the base. It was a commercial success. In 1976 JVC introduced the 3060, a 3" portable television with an included cassette player. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Videosphere was a JVC CRT television that was shaped in the form of a space helmet. ... Cathode ray tube employing electromagnetic focus and deflection Cutaway rendering of a color CRT Electron guns Electron beams Focusing coils Deflection coils Anode connection Mask for separating beams for red, green, and blue part of displayed image Phosphor layer with red, green, and blue zones Close-up of the phosphor... A premium digital clock radio with digital tuning A wind-up, spring-driven alarm clock A basic digital clock radio with analog tuning An alarm clock is a clock that is designed to make an alert sound at a specific date and/or time. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... A cassette deck is a player, or player/recorder, for compact audio cassettes. ...

In 1979 JVC demonstrated a prototype of their VHD/AHD disc system. This system was capacitance-based like CED, but the discs were grooveless with the stylus being guided by servo signals in the disc surface. The VHD discs were initially handled by the operator and played on a machine that looked like an audio LP turntable, but JVC used caddy housed discs when the system was marketed. Development was interrupted continually, but in April 1983 it was first marketed in Japan, and then in the UK in 1984 to a limited industrial market. By this time both Philips and Sony already had compact discs on the market, and the VHD format never caught on. For the song by The Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... VHD is a videodisc format which was marketed predominantly in Japan by JVC. VHD stands for Video High Density, and there was also an audio-only variant called, not surprisingly, AHD. // Technology VHD discs are 25cm in diameter, though the user never sees them as they are stored in caddies... SelectaVision was originally the name for a video playback system developed by RCA using specialized disc-based media, in which video and audio could be played back on a TV using a special analog needle and groove system similar to phonograph records. ... Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Philips HQ in Amsterdam Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

During the 1980s JVC had a brief appearance in marketing their own portable audio equipment similar to the Sony Walkmans at the time. The JVC CQ-F2K was released in 1982 and had a detachable radio that mounted to the headphones for compact, wire-free listening experience. JVC had difficulty making a success of the products, and a few years later abandoned the product line. In Japan, JVC marketed the products under the name Victor. The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... SONY Recorder Walkman (TCM-S68V) MD Walkman The Sony Walkman personal stereo was a transistorized miniature portable cassette tape player invented by Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka and Kozo Ohsone, and manufactured by Sony Corporation. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1986 JVC released the HC-95, a personal computer with a 3.58MHz Zilog Z80A processor, 64KB RAM and ran MSX Basic 2.0. It included two 3.5" floppy disk drives and conformed to the graphics specification of the MSX-2 standard. However, like the Pioneer PX-7 it also carried a sophisticated hardware interface that handled video superimposition and various interactive video processing features. The JVC was first sold in Japan, and then Europe, but sales were disappointing. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Zilog, often seen as ZiLOG, is a manufacturer of 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit CPUs, and is most famous for its Intel 8080-compatible Z80 series. ... Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ... Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ... Old Pioneer Logo (Until 1998) Pioneer Corporation ) (TYO: 6773 ) is a Japanese multinational corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products, based in Tokyo, Japan. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ...

JVC video recorders were marketed by Ferguson in the UK, with just cosmetic changes. However Ferguson needed to find another supplier for its camcorders when JVC produced only the VHS-C format, rather than the much more popular video8. Furthermore, Ferguson was taken over by Thomson SA and so ended the relationship. At the time, JVC had a reputation for reliable, high quality equipment. JVC has gone on to invent hard drive camcorders. VHS-C is the compact VHS format used for portable video recorders. ... A 8mm Camcorder The 8mm Video Format (official name: Video8) is a type of video cassette recorder and video tape. ... This article concerns the media and entertainment company. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...

Present

JVC Prosumer HDV video camera. 2006

In October 2001, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented JVC an Emmy Award for "outstanding achievement in technological advancement" for “Pioneering Development of Consumer Camcorders.” Annual sponsorships of the world-renown JVC Tokyo Video Festival and the JVC Jazz Festival have helped attract the attention of more customers. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3072x2304, 3597 KB) Summary Myke Waddy, This is my PRO-HDV JVC Camera. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3072x2304, 3597 KB) Summary Myke Waddy, This is my PRO-HDV JVC Camera. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Emmy Award. ...

JVC has been a worldwide soccer supporter since 1982, having a former kit sponsorship with Arsenal and continues its role as an official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea / Japan™. JVC made headlines as the first-ever corporate partner of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. JVC has recently forged elite corporate partnerships with ESPN Zone and with Foxploration. In 2005, JVC joined HANA, the High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance to help establish standards in consumer electronics interoperability. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in north London. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the international governing body of association football. ... Merritt Island and Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) at Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. ... ESPN Zone is a small chain of very large sports-theme restaurants that include arcades, TV studios, and radio studios. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance, or HANA, is a media industry group of leading companies established to create a design guideline for secure high-definition audio-visual networks. ...

JVC developed the first DVD+RW DL in 2005. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In December 2006, Matsushita entered talks with Kenwood and Cerberus Capital Management to sell its stake in JVC. [1] Kenwood Corporation ) (TYO: 6765 ) is a Japanese manufacturer of amateur radio as well as Hi-Fi and portable audio equipment. ... Cerberus Capital Management LP is a large privately owned hedge fund. ...

Brand name

JVC is mostly known in Japan by the Victor name, preceded by the Nipper dog His Master's Voice logo. JVC is, however, not allowed to use it outside of Japan. Therefore, the http://www.victor.jp and http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp/english/global-e.html web sites look quite different. Conversely, the HMV store chain exists in Japan, but they are not allowed to use the His Master's Voice motto and do not use the Nipper logo; it is replaced with a stylized image of a gramophone. Photograph of the original painting of Nipper looking into an Edison Bell cylinder phonograph. ... His Masters Voice, often abbreviated to HMV, is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record company. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Edison cylinder phonograph from about 1899 The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. ...

See also

• List of digital camera brands
• List of home computers
• Mitsubishi Electric
• Video
  • VHS
  • D-VHS
  • S-VHS
  • W-VHS
  • Videotape
  • Video tape recorder
  • Videotape format war
  • Videocassette recorder
• Victor Entertainment
• Wondermega
• XRCD

List of digital camera brands past and present, updated to 2005, but may miss some. ... This is a list of home computers, sorted alphanumerically by manufacturers name and chronologically by computer model. ... Mitsubishi Electric Corporation ) (TYO: 6503 ) is a Japanese company based in the Tokyo Building in Tokyo, manufactures electric and architectural equipment, as well as a major worldwide producer of photovoltaic panels. ... Video (Latin for I see, first person singular present, indicative of videre, to see) is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... D-VHS logo D-VHS is a digital video format developed by JVC, in collaboration with Hitachi, Matsushita and Philips. ... Introduced in Japan in 1987, S-VHS (Super VHS) was an improved version of the VHS standard for consumer video cassette recorders. ... W-VHS is a high definition analogue video tape format created by JVC. Usually it used to store RGB or composite video at a resolution of 1125 lines on a magnetic tape of the same dimensions as VHS. Categories: Technology stubs | Television stubs | Video storage | VHS ... Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording television pictures and accompanying sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ... A video tape recorder (VTR), is a tape recorder that can record video material. ... The videotape format war was a period of an intense format war of rival incompatible models of video cassette recorders in the 1970s and early 1980s. ... The videocassette recorder (or VCR, more commonly known in the British Isles as the video recorder), is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable videotape cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ... The Victor Company of Japan, or Japan Victor Company, JVC, is a large international corporation with its headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, which produces audio, video, and consumer electronics products. ... The Sega Mega (Japanese: メガCD) is an add-on device for the Sega Mega Drive released in Europe, Australia and Japan. ... XRCD (short for eXtended Resolution Compact Disc) is a special mastering and manufacture process patented by JVC that is used for producing high fidelity redbook Compact Discs. ...

External links

• JVC Japan English language site
• JVC Everio Camera
• JVC Everio GZ-MG505 Hard Drive Camcorder