One day, my mom brought home a videocassette of the science-fiction movie " Blade Runner."

一天，妈妈带回家一盘科幻电影《银翼杀手》的录带。

Video stores became very popular in the 1980s, after videocassette players became popular.

在 20 世纪 80 年代，磁带播放器流行之后，变得非流行。

The word " video" nowadays is often used to refer to the old videocassettes – the VHS cassettes.

如今，“视频”一词用于指代旧录带——VHS 录带。

When videocassette recorders were first produced, they sold for $30,000 each and were sold at luxury-oriented Neiman Marcus stores.

录机首次生产时，每台售价为 30,000 美元，并在以奢侈品为主的 Neiman Marcus 商出售。

But all the previous years of dramatically declining prices of videocassette recorders had no effect on the statistics used to compile the consumer price index.

但前几年录机价格的大幅下降并没有对用于编制消费者价格指数的统计数据产生影响。

" And don't you own all three movies on video already? " That is, Cameron already has copies of this movie, perhaps on an old videocassette tape.

“你不是已经拥有这三部电影的录带了吗？ ” 也就是说，卡梅伦已经拥有这部电影的副本， 也许是在一盘旧录带上。