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  2. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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    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 broadcast television or other AV ...

  3. VHS - Wikipedia

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    S VHS Recorder, Camcorder & Cassette. VHS (Video Home System) [1] [2] [3] is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC). It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period throughout the 1980s and 1990s. [4] [5]

  4. Videotape format war - Wikipedia

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    "VCR"-format cassettes in case (left) and on own (right). A full-size CD is shown for scale. Size comparison between a Betamax cassette (top) and a VHS cassette (bottom) The videotape format war was a period of competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog video videocassette and video cassette recorders (VCR) in the late 1970s and the 1980s, mainly involving the ...

  5. Betacam - Wikipedia

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    The new Betacam SP studio decks were the players: The BVW-60 and BVW-65 (the BVW-65 features Dynamic Tracking); and the Edit Recorders: the BVW-70, and the Dynamic Tracking model, the BVW-75. The BVV-5 was the Betacam SP dockable camera back, which could play back in color if its companion playback adapter was used.

  6. Betamax - Wikipedia

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    By 1980, JVC's VHS format controlled 60% of the North American market. [27] The large economy of scale allowed VHS units to be introduced to the European market at a far lower cost than the rarer Betamax units. In the United Kingdom, Betamax held a 25% market share in 1981, but by 1986, it was down to 7.5% and continued to decline further.

  7. 12 Tech Flops of the 1970s and '80s That Were Ahead of ... - AOL

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    Sony’s Betamax home video recorder arrived in stores nearly a year before JVC’s VHS player. Both systems could record and play back TV shows and movies, and although Betamax promised a ...