It certainly is not a passive recording mechanism, like a digital disc or a tape.

Moreover, the introduction of the so-called camcorder - a video camera with its own recording mechanism -has resulted in the electronic equivalent of home movies.

Matron Gundal touched buttons, evidently to activate a recording mechanism.

Betacam cameras that contained their own recording mechanisms did not appear until the early 1980s.

Spock nodded, studying the sparse information contained in the recording mechanism.

The recording mechanism creates a test script from the actions.

'You take the pen out and it automatically activates the recording mechanism.'

This process of turning the recording mechanism on and off is called "punching in" and "punching out".

All of these new developments make M-JPEG an inefficient recording mechanism.

Pete reactivated the digital recording mechanism.