video vs video recorder

video

noun
  • Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format. 

  • Television, television show, movie. 

  • A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video, or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube). 

verb
  • To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound. 

  • To record using a video camera, to videotape 

  • To record a television program 

video recorder

noun
  • An electronic device for recording video signals, for example onto magnetic tape or videodisks. 

How often have the words video and video recorder occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )