http://tritonknowledge.com/historicalcontext/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Episode-2-VHS.mp3 Episode 2 discusses a time before streaming video, DVDs, or Laserdiscs–when the first widely available medium to record, store and watch video was the norm: the VHS tape.

Here is a youtube video of a VCR at work:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/VCR_in_action-01.ogg/VCR_in_action-01.ogg.480p.webm