Production of home television receivers continued under a newly incorporated entity, Quasar Electronics, Inc., an American-managed subsidiary of Matsushita Electronic Corporation of America (MECA). On May 29, 1974, Motorola, Inc., sold its television manufacturing division-including its plants in Pontiac, Illinois Franklin Park, Illinois and Markham, Ontario-to Matsushita. Quasar was established as a television brand in 1967 by Motorola, who wanted to emphasize the simplified design of their all-transistor television sets the chassis was designed in such a way that the electronic components were contained within a drawer that could be slid out by a technician for easy replacement or repair. In 2013, Panasonic re-registered the Quasar trademark. In 1974, Motorola sold its television business to Matsushita Electric, now Panasonic, which continued producing and marketing televisions under the Quasar brand until 2005. It was then established as a subsidiary brand, with all Motorola-manufactured televisions being sold as Quasar by Motorola. These TVs were marketed as containing all serviceable parts in a drawer beside the picture tube. Quasar is an American brand of electronics, first used by Motorola in 1967 for a model line of transistorized color televisions. labguysworld.Televisions, VCRs, record players, cassette players, air conditioners, Palmcorders, and microwave ovens.Recording time: Originally up to 100 minutes, 120 minute cassettes became available at a later date.Audio signal: 1 channel linear track (0.4 mm).Video signal: Frequency modulation 3.3–4.6 MHz (chroma signal: Color-under 688.374 kHz).Video track width: 48 μm (73 μm with guard band).Recording method: Single head, alpha wrap helical scan.

The VX machines have been the only VCR designed with this feature. The drum has a knurled nut on top, which can be adjusted by hand, allowing the drum to be removed from the deck for cleaning or replacement. The video head drum itself of a VX machine also has the unique distinction of being completely removable and replaceable without any special tools or equipment. The opening was protected by a cylindrical plastic plug to protect the tape, which was unscrewed from the opening when the tape was loaded in the machine (by means of moving a horizontal lever on the front of the machine), and inserted back into the tape when ejected (by moving the lever back). The tape in this opening was pre-formed in a loop to go around the head drum, eliminating the need for the tape to be pulled out of the cassette and threaded around the drum (as with later videocassette formats such as VHS and Betamax). The VX cassette itself had both reels of 1⁄ 2-inch-wide (13 mm) magnetic tape stacked on top of each other in a coaxial fashion (much like the earlier Cartrivision and Philips VCR formats) in the bottom half of the tape, with a circular opening on the underside of the top half of the cassette, where the video head drum would enter. The first and only model sold in North America was the Quasar VR-1000 (based on the Panasonic VX-2000), with the VT-100 timer.

In Japan, the VX-100 model was launched in 1975, with the VX-2000 following in 1976. In the United States, it was sold using the Quasar brand and marketed under the name ' The Great Time Machine' to exhibit its time-shifting capabilities, since VX machines had a companion electro-mechanical clock timer for timed recording of television programs. VX was a consumer analog recording videocassette format developed by Matsushita launched in 1975 in Japan which was short-lived and unsuccessful. Magnetic tape-based consumer videocassette format VX Media type

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