| Victor Company of Japan, Limited 日本ビクター株式会社 |
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| Type | Corporation TYO: 6792 |
| Founded | Yokohama, Japan (1927) |
| Headquarters |  Yokohama, Japan |
| Key people | Kunihiko Sato, President |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Products | Audio, visual, computer-related electronics and software, media products |
| Revenue | ▼ 840 billion Yen (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2005) |
| Employees | 34,493 (Consolidated, as of March 31, 2005) |
| Website | JVC Global |
Victor Company of Japan, Limited (日本ビクター株式会社 Nippon Bikutā Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 6792), usually referred to as JVC, is an international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927. A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business The, or TSE, located in Tokyo, Japan, is the second largest Stock exchange market in the world by market value second only to the New York Stock is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū and is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū and is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The, or TSE, located in Tokyo, Japan, is the second largest Stock exchange market in the world by market value second only to the New York Stock International or internationally most often describes interaction between Nations or encompassing two or more nations constituting a group or association having A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū and is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The company is best known for introducing Japan's first televisions, and developing the VHS video recorder. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic
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Companies
- JVC America Inc. - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- JVC Americas Corp - Wayne, New Jersey
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. Tuscaloosa is a city in west central Alabama in the southern United States. Wayne is a Township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, located less than 15 miles from midtown Manhattan. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded Sound from the 1870s through the 1980s A gramophone Victrola redirects here For other uses see Victrola (disambiguation The Victor Talking Machine Company ( 1901 – 1929 In 1929 majority ownership was transferred to RCA-Victor. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986 In the 1930s JVC produced phonographs and records, but in 1932 JVC started producing radios, and in 1939 they introduced Japan's first TV. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays 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. is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with ---- Betamax is a home Videocassette tape recording format developed by Sony, and released on May 10, 1975. Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto Magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. The videotape format war was a period of intense competition or " Format war " of incompatible models of Video cassette recorders (VCR in the late 1970s and 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. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Sony tacitly conceded defeat in 1988 when they also began producing VHS recorders. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar)
In 1970 JVC marketed the Videosphere, a modern portable CRT television inside a space helmet shaped casing with an alarm clock at the base. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Videosphere was a JVC CRT Television that was shaped in the form of a space helmet The cathode ray tube (CRT is a Vacuum tube containing an Electron gun (a source of electrons and a Fluorescent screen with internal or It was a commercial success. In 1976 JVC introduced the 3060, a 3" portable television with an included cassette player. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A cassette deck is a type of Tape recorder for playing or recording audio Compact cassettes A deck was formerly distinguished from a recorder
In 1979 JVC demonstrated a prototype of their VHD/AHD disc system. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Video High Density (VHD is a Videodisc format which was marketed predominantly in Japan by JVC. Video High Density (VHD is a Videodisc format which was marketed predominantly in Japan by JVC. 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. The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded Sound from the 1870s through the 1980s 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. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) By this time both Philips and Sony already had compact discs on the market, and the VHD format never caught on. Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV ( Royal Philips Electronics Inc. is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio
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. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981
During the 1980s JVC had a brief appearance in marketing their own portable audio equipment similar to the Sony Walkmans at the time. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Walkman is a popular Sony Brand used to market its portable audio and Video players The JVC CQ-F2K was released in 1982 and had a detachable radio that mounted to the headphones for compact, wire-free listening experience. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) 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. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) A personal computer ( PC) is any Computer whose original sales price size and capabilities make it useful for individuals and which is intended to be operated 58MHz Zilog Z80A processor, 64KB RAM and ran MSX Basic 2. Zilog Inc, often seen as ZiLOG (the official company denotation in 1998 through Jun 2007 is a manufacturer of 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit MSX was the name of a standardized Home computer architecture in the 1980s 0. It included two 3. 5" floppy disk drives and conformed to the graphics specification of the MSX-2 standard. A floppy disk is an increasingly Obsolete data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin flexible ("floppy" Magnetic storage medium encased MSX was the name of a standardized Home computer architecture in the 1980s However, like the Pioneer PX-7 it also carried a sophisticated hardware interface that handled video superimposition and various interactive video processing features. ( is a Multinational Corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products based in Tokyo, Japan. 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. Ferguson Electronics (formerly known as Ferguson Radio Corporation) are an electronics company specializing in small electronics items such as radios and set top boxes 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. VHS-C is the compact VHS format introduced in 1982 and used primarily for consumer-grade compact Camcorders. The 8 mm video format refers informally to three related Videocassette formats for the NTSC and PAL / SECAM television systems Furthermore, Ferguson was taken over by Thomson SA and so ended the relationship. Thomson SA (,) formerly known as Thomson Multimedia is an international provider of solutions for the creation management delivery and access of video for the At the time, JVC had a reputation for reliable, high quality equipment. JVC has gone on to invent hard drive camcorders. A hard disk drive ( HDD) commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk, or fixed disk drive, is a Non-volatile storage device
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. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. ” 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. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (French for International Federation of Association Football) JVC made headlines as the first-ever corporate partner of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The John F Kennedy Space Center ( KSC) is the NASA Space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center ( Spaceport) on JVC has recently forged elite corporate partnerships with ESPN Zone and with Foxploration. ESPN Zone is a small chain of very large sports-themed restaurants that include arcades TV studios and radio studios In 2005, JVC joined HANA, the High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance to help establish standards in consumer electronics interoperability. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance, or HANA, is a media industry group of leading companies established to create a design guideline for secure high-definition
JVC developed the first DVD+RW DL in 2005. A DVD+RW DL is a rewritable Optical disc with storage capacity of 8
In December 2006, Matsushita entered talks with Kenwood and Cerberus Capital Management to sell its stake in JVC. Cerberus Capital Management LP is one of the largest Private equity investment firms in the USA [1]
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. [2]
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. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The association between JVC and Arsenal was one of the longest sponsorships of its kind in English football. Football is the National sport of England and plays a significant role in English culture. 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. The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League for sponsorship reasons is a league competition featuring professional football clubs Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football, run by and named after The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The Premier League, colloquially referred to as the Premiership, is an English professional league for football clubs The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football, run by and named after Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) After the end of JVC's backing in 1999, computer manufacturer Sega took over as Arsenal's sponsors. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) is a multinational Video game Software and Hardware development company and a former Home computer JVC also sponsor the away shirts of the Australian A-League club, Sydney FC. The A-League is the premier Australasian domestic Association football competition Sydney FC, founded in 2004, is an Australian Association football (soccer club based in Sydney and competes in Australia's premier competition JVC also sponsors the Blitz Football Club in Karachi, Pakistan.
Brand name
JVC is mostly known in Japan by the Victor name, preceded by the Nipper dog His Master's Voice logo. Nipper ( 1884 - 1895) was a Dog that served as the model for a painting entitled His Master's Voice which later became identified with a His Master's Voice, today usually abbreviated to HMV, is a famous Trademark in the music business and for many years was the name of a large record label 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 are not allowed to use the His Master's Voice motto and do not use the Nipper logo; it is replaced with a stylized image of a gramophone.
See also
- List of digital camera brands
- List of home computers
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Video
- Victor Entertainment
- Wondermega
- XRCD
External links
- JVC Australia
- JVC Japan English language site
- JVC USA
- JVC Everio Camera
- JVC Technical Service
- JVC Archives
- JVC Philippines
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