JVC was founded on1September, 927 13, with the original name of "Japan Winner Phonograph Company" (Japan ビクター Phonograph Co., Ltd.), which was a subsidiary of Victor Phonograph Company, the leader of American phonographs and vinyl records at that time. JVC produces phonographs and vinyl records on 1930. JVC began to produce radios in 1932, and exhibited the first Japanese TV set in 1939.
During World War II, Japanese companies broke off relations with foreign partners. Most of the ownership of 1929 JVC was transferred to RCA-Victor. The full name of 1943 JVC was changed to "Japan Audio Company" (Japan Audio Co., Ltd.). 1945, the full name of JVC was changed to "Japan Winner Company" (Japan ビクター Co., Ltd.). Before 1953, JVC was owned by Panasonic, and now they own 36.90% equity of JVC. 1960, JVC began to sell color TV sets.
1970- 1980
JVC invented the VHS format, and in June of 1976 10, it showed the first player "HR-3300" to the consumer market at a price of 256,000 yen. Sony launched Betamax home video before 1975, which became the main competitor of VHS, thus triggering the video format war of 1980. Betamax video tape is smaller and clearer than VHS video tape. Although there is little difference for consumers, they are two relatively advanced industrial technologies. In 1984, 40 companies use VHS, and only 12 companies use Betamax. Sony finally admitted defeat and began to produce VHS video recorders in 1988.
1970, JVC began to sell Videosphere, a new portable CRT TV in the shape of a helmet in space with an alarm clock at the bottom. This is a commercial success. 1976, JVC introduced 3060, a three-inch portable TV set with cassette player. 1977 JVC imports the new version of enterprise identification mark.
In 1979, JVC shows the VHD/AHD disk system prototype. The capacitance principle of the system is the same as that of CED, but because its disk surface is guided by servo signal, there are fewer grooves on the disk surface. VHD records were originally introduced by an operator and played on a machine that looked like a sound LP turntable, but when JVC began to be sold in the market, it turned to records packed in boxes. It stopped developing one after another, but began to appear in the Japanese market in April of 1983, and then sold to the British industrial market in a small amount in 1984. But at that time, Philips and Sony had already started selling CDs, and VHD couldn't catch up at all.
1980 JVC introduced some portable audio equipment similar to Sony Walkman. JVC CQ-F2K was published in 1982, and it has a detachable radio connected earphone to provide a wireless listening experience. JVC couldn't make the product successful, so it stopped the production line a few years later. JVC sells products in Japan under the name of Victor.
1986, JVC released HC-95, which is a personal computer running MSX Basic 2.0 with 3.58MHz Zilog Z80A processor and 64KB memory. It contains two 3.5-inch disk drives, which meets the maximum image standard of MSX-2. However, just like Pioneer PX-7, it has a hardware interface that can handle image addition and interactive image processing. It was first sold in Japan and then in Europe, but the result was not satisfactory.
The video of JVC was sold by Ferguson in North America, just for beautification. Ferguson needs to find another video lens supplier, because JVC products only support VHS-C format, but not the popular video8. In addition, Ferguson was acquired by Thomson Co., Ltd., thus ending the cooperative relationship. At the same time, JVC is defined as a high-quality and credible product. However, a few years later, JVC's reputation was attacked only because of a few defective digital video clips.