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Cartrivision is an analog videocassette format introduced in 1972, and the first format to offer feature films for consumer rental. [1]Cartrivision was produced by Frank Stanton's Cartridge Television, Inc. (CTI), a subsidiary of Avco, [2] which also owned Embassy Pictures at the time.
Coupled with the slow horizontal tape speed, the sound was comparable with that of a low-quality audio cassette. By contrast, all Video8 machines used audio frequency modulation (AFM) to record sound along the same helical tape path as that of the video signal. This meant that Video8's standard audio was of a far higher quality than that of its ...
The phrase cartridge tape is also ambiguous with 36 different types of audio, [4] video [5] or data [6] cartridges listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media. From time to time the terms tape cartridge and tape cassette are used to describe the same product.
The Sony 9-Pin Protocol or P1 protocol is a two-way communications protocol to control advanced video recorders. Sony introduced this protocol to control reel-to-reel type C video tape recorders (VTR) as well as videocassette recorders (VCR).
The endless tape cartridge has a tape transport that allows forward movement only. The magnetic tape can have start and end markers, like a magnetic beacon, an electric conductive splice, a hole that can be optically scanned, or a transparent splice tape.
The recording media in a video floppy is a flexible magnetic disk 47 mm (1.9 in) in diameter and 40 μm (0.0016 in) thick. [4] The disk is housed in a rectangular cartridge with one chamfered corner for orientation, measuring 60 mm × 54 mm × 3.6 mm (2.36 in × 2.13 in × 0.14 in); the cartridge is equipped with a sliding shutter for dust protection and a hub opening that is 15.9 mm (0.63 in ...
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The single-hole cassette used the tape of compact cassette 3.81 mm (= 0.15 inch) wide only at a tape speed 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 inch = 4.7625 cm per second, rounded: 4.75 cm/s. To wind the tape back into the cassette, the single-hole cassette got onto its built-in tape reel ring gear with 8-teeth for traction, which represents the single hole.