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  2. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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    Early models of consumer video tape recorders , and most professional broadcast analog videotape machines (e.g. 1-inch Type C) use reel to reel tape spools. The history of the videocassette recorder follows the history of videotape recording in general. Ampex introduced the quadruplex videotape professional broadcast standard format with its ...

  3. Videotape - Wikipedia

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    A 14-inch reel of 2-inch quad videotape compared with a modern-day MiniDV videocassette. Both media store one hour of color video. The first commercial professional broadcast quality videotape machines capable of replacing kinescopes were the two-inch quadruplex videotape (Quad) machines introduced by Ampex on April 14, 1956, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago.

  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. Timeline of video formats - Wikipedia

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    A Betamax tape Analog video format developed by Sony. Inspired the later Betacam professional format. 1976 VHS: Video Home System Analog video recording on tape cassettes. Beat Betamax to become the dominant format for home analog video. 1978 LaserDisc: Close-up of grooves on a LaserDisc Analog video that was read via laser stored on a 12 inch ...

  6. Video tape recorder - Wikipedia

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    AMPEX quadruplex VR-1000A, the first commercially released video tape recorder in the late 1950s; quadruplex open-reel tape is 2 inches wide The first portable VTR, the suitcase-sized 1967 AMPEX quadruplex VR-3000 1976 Hitachi portable VTR, for Sony 1" type C; the source and take-up reels are stacked for compactness. However, only one reel is ...

  7. U-matic - Wikipedia

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    U-matic or 3 ⁄ 4-inch Type E Helical Scan [1] [2] or SMPTE E [3] is an analogue recording videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969, and introduced to the market in September 1971.

  8. Quadruplex videotape - Wikipedia

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    2-inch quadruplex videotape (also called 2" quad video tape or quadraplex) was the first practical and commercially successful analog recording video tape format. [1] It was developed and released for the broadcast television industry in 1956 by Ampex , an American company based in Redwood City, California . [ 2 ]

  9. Home video - Wikipedia

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    Video rental stores are physical retail businesses that rent home videos such as movies and prerecorded TV shows (sometimes also selling other media, such as video game copies on disc). Typically, a rental shop conducts business with customers under conditions and terms agreed upon in a rental agreement or contract , which may be implied ...