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2. VHS - Wikipedia

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   The VHS ( Video Home System) [1] [2] [3] is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, invented in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC). It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period in the 1980s and 1990s. [4] Magnetic tape video recording was adopted by the television industry in the ...

3. VHS-C - Wikipedia

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   VHS-C is the compact variant of the VHS videocassette format, introduced by Victor Company of Japan ( JVC) in 1982, [1] and used primarily for consumer-grade compact analog recording camcorders. The format is based on the same video tape as is used in VHS, and can be played back in a standard VHS VCR with an adapter. [2]

4. Mini-Cassette - Wikipedia

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   dictation. The Mini-Cassette, often written minicassette, is a magnetic tape audio cassette format introduced by Philips in 1967. It is used primarily in dictation machines and was also employed as a data storage for the Philips P2000 home computer. As of August 2021, Phillips still produces mini-cassette players along with new mini-cassette tapes.

5. 8 mm video format - Wikipedia

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   Data8. Released. 1984. The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats. These are the original Video8 ( analog recording) format and its improved successor Hi8 ( analog video and analog audio but with provision for digital audio ), as well as a more recent digital recording format known as Digital8.

6. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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   Videocassette recorder. A typical late-model Philips Magnavox, VHS format VCR. A close-up process of how the magnetic tape in a VHS cassette is being pulled from the cassette shell to the head drum of the VCR. A videocassette recorder ( VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from ...

7. Betamax - Wikipedia

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   Betamax (also known as Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video, commonly known as a video cassette recorder. It was developed by Sony and was released in Japan on May 10, 1975, [1] followed by the US in November of the same year. Betamax is widely considered to be obsolete ...