Everything about Jvc totally explained
, 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.
Companies
History
1920s - 1960s
JVC was founded in
1927 as "The Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan, Limited" 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 held a majority stake in the company until August 2007.
1970s - 1980s
JVC developed the VHS format, and introduced the first VHS recorders to the consumer market in
1977 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 with slightly superior quality to the VHS cassette, due to its use of a
guard band in the recording process, but this resulted in Betamax having 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.
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.
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.
In
1981 JVC introduced a line of revolutionary direct drive cassette decks, topped by the DD-9, that provided previously unattainable levels of speed stability.
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.
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 HC-95 was first sold in Japan, and then
Europe, but sales were disappointing.
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.
Present
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-renowned JVC
Tokyo Video Festival and the JVC Jazz Festival have helped attract the attention of more customers.
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.
JVC developed the first
DVD+RW DL in 2005.
In December 2006, Matsushita entered talks with
Kenwood and
Cerberus Capital Management to sell its stake in JVC.
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In 2007, Victor Company of Japan Ltd confirmed a strategic capital alliance with Kenwood and SPARKX Investment, resulting in Matsushita shareholding being reduced to approx 37%.
In 2008, Matsushita agreed to spin-off the company and merge with Kenwood creating JVC Kenwood Holdings, to be formed on October 1st, 2008.
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Sponsorship
JVC is a well known brand among
English football fans due to the firm's sponsorship of
Arsenal Football Club from
1982 to
1999. The association between JVC and Arsenal was one of the longest sponsorships of its kind in
English football. Arsenal wore "JVC" shirts at the time of their
Football League championship glories in
1989 and
1991, their
Football League Cup final triumph in
1989, their
FA Cup and
Football League Cup double in
1993, their
European Cup Winners' Cup triumph in
1994, and the
Premier League/
FA Cup double in
1998. After the end of JVC's backing in
1999, computer manufacturer
Sega took over as Arsenal's sponsors. JVC also sponsor the away shirts of the Australian
A-League club,
Sydney FC.
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're not allowed to use the His Master's Voice motto and don't use the Nipper logo; it's replaced with a stylized image of a
gramophone.
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