ity of both pictures and sound became very, very good. The first VCR (video cassette recorder) was introduced in 1977 in the USA. With VCRs , people could record their favourite programmes, but the quality was not perfect. The invention (Z BF) of the CD andthe DVD during the 1990s made a better quality of both pictures and sound. The first DVD player was introduced in 1997 in the USA. At that time you could not record programDuring recent years, people began to develop new ways to record TV programmes with machines that had memory. This way your TV set can save films, almost like a computer. This new invention is called TiVo, and it has become very popular in the USA. With TiVo, TV sets are similar to computers , but at the same time computers aresimilar to TV sets. With a computer you can now pay to download films and TV programmes from the Internet and watch them on the computer screen. In the future, computers will probably take the place of TV sets.emas at home : they are called "home movie theatres". Watching movies at home or inthe cinema are both great and fun, but some people think that cinemas are still the best places to watch movies.Today most people can't live without a TV set! During the 1980s and 1990s the qualmes with DVD players, but today DVD recorders are available (PJFJFIÍ9).Living rooms with large-screen TV sets and big speakers (3%ểå) are like small cin