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JVC (short for Japan Victor Company) is a Japanese brand owned by
JVCKenwood , stylized as JVCKENWOOD, is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. It was formed from the merger of Victor Company of Japan, Ltd (JVC) and Kenwood Corporation on October 1, 2008. Upon creation, Haruo Kaw ...
corporation. Founded in 1927 as the Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan and later as , the company is best known for introducing Japan's first
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s and for developing the Video Home System ( VHS) video recorder. From 1953 to 2008, the
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb s ...
was the majority stockholder in JVC. In 2008, JVC merged with
Kenwood Corporation is a Japanese brand of consumer electronics. It has been owned by JVCKenwood ever since October 2011, when Kenwood Corporation merged with JVC. Kenwood manufactures audio equipment such as cassette tape decks/recorders, amateur radio (ham) e ...
to create JVCKenwood. JVC sold their electronic products in their home market of Japan under the "Victor" name with the
His Master's Voice His Master's Voice (HMV) was the name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. The phrase was coined in the late 1890s from the title of a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, which depicted a Jack Russ ...
logo but used the name JVC or Nivico in the past for export due to differing ownership of the His Master's Voice logo and the ownership of the "Victor" name from successors of the
Victor Talking Machine Company The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer that operated independently from 1901 until 1929, when it was acquired by the Radio Corporation of America and subsequently operated as a subsidi ...
. In 2011, the Victor brand for electronics in Japan was replaced by the global JVC brand. However, the previous "Victor" name and logo are retained by JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment, and are used as JVCKenwood's luxury HiFi marque.


History


1920s creation to World War II

JVC was founded in 1927 as "The Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan, Limited," a subsidiary of the United States' leading
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and record company, the Victor Talking Machine Company of
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. In 1929, the
Radio Corporation of America The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Com ...
acquired the Victor Talking Machine Company, the purchase including Victor's Japan operations. In the early 1930s, JVC produced only phonographs and records; In 1932, after the RCA purchase, JVC began producing
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s, and in 1939, Japan's first locally-made television. In 1943, amidst the hostilities between Japan and the United States during
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
, JVC seceded from
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, retaining the 'Victor' and "His Master's Voice" trademarks for use in Japan only. After the war, JVC resumed distribution of RCA Victor recordings in Japan until RCA established its own separate operations in Japan during the 1960s. Today, the record company in Japan is known as
Victor Entertainment , also known as in Japan, is a subsidiary of JVCKenwood that produces and distributes music, movies and other entertainment products such as anime and television shows in Japan. It is known as JVC Entertainment in countries where Sony Music Ente ...
.


Post-war

In 1953, JVC became majority-owned by the
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. Panasonic released its ownership in 2007. In the 1960s, JVC established the Nivico (Nippon Victor Corporation) brand for
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line of console televisions and stereos. In 1970, JVC marketed the
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, a portable
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(CRT) television inside a space-helmet-shaped casing with an
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at the base. It was a commercial success. In 1971, JVC introduced the first discrete system for four channel
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on vinyl records - CD-4 (Compatible Discrete Four Channel) or
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, as it was called by the
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(RCA) in the United States. In 1973, the JVC Cutting Center opened (in the USA) to provide mastering for CD-4 discs. The Mark II 1/2 speed system was used until mid-1975 when it was replaced with the Mark III 1/2 speed system. In 1978, Mobile Fidelity began using the JVC Cutting Center to 1/2 speed master Stereo/Mono discs. In 1975, JVC introduced the first combined portable battery-operated radio with inbuilt TV, as the model 3050. The TV was a black-and-white cathode ray tube. One year later, JVC expanded the model to add a cassette-recorder, as the 3060, creating the world's first
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with radio, cassette and TV. In 1976, the first VCR to use VHS was the Victor HR-3300, and was introduced by the president of JVC at the
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in
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on September 9, 1976. JVC started selling the HR-3300 in
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, Tokyo, Japan on October 31, 1976. Region-specific versions of the JVC HR-3300 were also distributed later on, such as the HR-3300U in the United States, and HR-3300EK in the United Kingdom.


1970s, 1980s and the VHS/Betamax format war

In the late 1970s, JVC developed the VHS format, introducing the first VHS recorders to the consumer market in 1976 for the equivalent of US$1,060.
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, which had introduced the
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home
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tape a year earlier, became the main competitor for JVC's VHS format into the 1980s, creating the
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. The Betamax cassette was smaller, with slightly superior picture quality to the VHS cassette, but this resulted in Betamax having less recording time. The two companies competed fiercely to encourage others to adopt their format, but by 1984 forty companies were using JVC's VHS format, while only 12 used Betamax. Sony began producing VHS recorders in 1988 and after 1993 stopped making Betamax recorders for the US market, and then completely in 2002. One reason for the market penetration of VHS in the UK were the sales of blank tapes by JVC UK Ltd to major Hollywood studios. This launched the nascent home video rental market, which was hardly touched by Sony at the time. This ability to take movies home helped the sale of the VHS hardware immensely. Added to this JVC stated in a promotional tape presented by BBC TV legend
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, that "You'll be able to buy the sort of films the BBC and ITV will never show you, for whatever reason". This accompanied by a clip from a slightly risqué adult movie. The adult movie industry adopted VHS as their common format and with that level of software available, hardware sales grew.


Other notable achievements

In 1979, JVC demonstrated a prototype of its
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(VHD) disc system. This system was capacitance-based, like
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(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
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, but JVC used caddy-housed discs when the system was marketed. Development suffered numerous delays, and the product was launched in 1983 in Japan, followed by the
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in 1984, to a limited industrial market. 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 briefly marketed its own portable audio equipment similar to the
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on the market at the time. The JVC CQ-F2K was released in 1982 and had a detachable radio that mounted to the headphones for a compact, wire-free listening experience. JVC had difficulty making the products successful, and a few years later stopped making them. In Japan, JVC marketed the products under the name "Victor". In 1986, JVC released the HC-95, a
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with a 3.58 MHz
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processor, 64 KB RAM, running on MSX Basic 2.0. It included two 3.5"
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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
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, but sales were disappointing. JVC video recorders were marketed by the Ferguson Radio Corporation in the UK, with just cosmetic changes. However, Ferguson needed to find another supplier for its camcorders when JVC produced only the
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format, rather than
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. Ferguson was later acquired by
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, which ended the relationship. JVC later invented
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camcorders.


21st century

In October 2001, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented JVC an
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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 football (soccer) supporter since 1982, having a former kit sponsorship with
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and continued its role as an official partner of
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Korea/Japan. JVC made headlines as the first-ever corporate partner of the
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Visitor Complex. JVC has recently forged corporate partnerships with
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and Foxploration. In 2005, JVC joined HANA, the
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, to help establish standards in consumer-electronics interoperability. In 2005, JVC announced their development of the first
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media (the dual layer version of the rewritable DVD-RW format). In December 2006, Matsushita entered talks with Kenwood and
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to sell its stake in JVC. In 2007, Victor Company of Japan Ltd confirmed a strategic capital alliance with Kenwood and SPARKX Investment, resulting in Matsushita's holding being reduced to approximately 37%. In March 2008, Matsushita (Panasonic) agreed to spin off the company and merge it with Kenwood Electronics, creating JVCKenwood Holdings on October 1, 2008. In April 2008, JVC announced that it was closing its TV plants in
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(
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) and Japan. This left it with one plant in Thailand. It stated it would outsource European production to an OEM. JVC TVs for North America are now being manufactured by AmTRAN Video Corporation along with distribution, service, and warranty under license from JVCKenwood. In Europe,
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, owner of
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, has a similar arrangement with JVCKenwood. In Europe, JVC sells mainly some audio accessories, like headphones, and until recently DIN type car audio. Also in Europe, JVC is present with camcorders, security cameras, audio systems and with their emblematic boom box, projectors. JVC TV sets in Europe are manufactured mainly by Turkish manufacturer Vestel, but are not available in all countries. JVC Indonesia manufactures and supplies original audio equipment for
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,
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,
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, and
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automobiles.


Sponsorship

JVC is a well-known brand among English football fans due to the firm's sponsorship of
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from 1981 to 1999, when
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took over as Arsenal's sponsors. JVC's 18-year association with Arsenal is one of the longest club-sponsor associations with any professional club football. JVC also sponsored Scottish football club
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in the late-1980s and early-1990s as well as the
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from 1982 to 2002. JVC also sponsors the "away" shirts of the Australian
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club,
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, and
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race driver
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. JVC has also been a sponsor of a
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called '' Rise: The Vieneo Province'' since 2003.


Brand name

JVC is generally known within Japan by the Victor brand, preceded by the
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(HMV) logo featuring the dog
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. Because of a conflict in trademarks between HMV, RCA and Victor, HMV and RCA are not allowed to use Nipper in Japan. At one time, the company used the Nivico name (for " Nippon Victor Company") overseas, before rebranding to JVC, which stands for Japan's Victor Company. Therefore, the Victor and JVC-Victor web sites looked quite different. Conversely, the HMV store chain exists in Japan (though no longer owned by
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), but it cannot use the His Master's Voice motto or logo; its logo is a stylized image of a gramophone only. After the
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(RCA), purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1929 and became RCA Victor in Japan, RCA also had acquired the use of Nipper and His Master's Voice logo, but for use in the
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. In 2011, JVC decided to phase out the "Victor" brand for electronics in Japan, but retained its use for its premium audio products, recording studios Victor Studio, and
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JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment.


Subsidiaries

* JVC KENWOOD Marketing India
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,
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* JVC America Inc. –
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, US * JVC Americas Corp –
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, US * JVC Canada Inc. –
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, Canada * JVC Asia –
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* JVC Australia –
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* JVC China –
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* JVC Europe –
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* JVC Middle-East (and Africa) –
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, UAE * JVC Latin America, S.A. –
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* JVC do Brasil Ltda. –
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* JVC International –
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* Victor Entertainment


Product gallery

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See also

* List of digital camera brands * List of home computers *
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*
Taiyo Yuden is a Japanese materials and electronics company, situated in Kyobashi, Chuo, Tokyo, that helped pioneer recordable CD technology (CD-R) along with Sony and Philips in 1988. Founded 70 years ago, Taiyo Yuden currently operates factories in Japa ...
(partner with JVC) *
Video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) sy ...
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D-VHS D-VHS is a digital video recording format developed by JVC, in collaboration with Hitachi, Matsushita, and Philips. The "D" in D-VHS originally stood for "Data", but JVC renamed the format as "Digital VHS". Released in 1998, it uses the same ph ...
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Videotape Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition. Information stored can be in the form of either an analog or digital signal. Videotape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs) and, more commonly, videoca ...
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Video tape recorder A video tape recorder (VTR) is a tape recorder designed to record and playback video and audio material from magnetic tape. The early VTRs were open-reel devices that record on individual reels of 2-inch-wide (5.08 cm) tape. They were u ...
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Videocassette recorder A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the reco ...
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Wondermega The Sega CD, released as the in most regions outside North America and Brazil, is a CD-ROM accessory for the Sega Genesis produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles. It was released on December 12, 1991, in Japan, ...
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XRCD Extended Resolution Compact Disc (XRCD) is a mastering and manufacture process patented by JVC (Victor Company of Japan, Ltd) for producing Red Book compact discs. It was first introduced in 1995. An XRCD is priced about twice as high as a re ...


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* {{Authority control Audio equipment manufacturers of Japan Electronics companies established in 1927 Electronics companies disestablished in 2011 Companies formerly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Consumer electronics brands Display technology companies Electronics companies of Japan Headphones manufacturers Japanese brands Japanese companies established in 1927 Japanese companies disestablished in 2011 JVCKenwood 2011 mergers and acquisitions Loudspeaker manufacturers Microphone manufacturers Movie camera manufacturers Portable audio player manufacturers VHS Radio manufacturers