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Period of competition
The videotape format war was a period of competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog videocassette formats and video cassette
Videotape_format_war
Format war from 2006 to 2008 between Blu-ray and HD DVD
DVD production infrastructure. The competition echoed the earlier videotape format war between VHS and Betamax, with hardware manufacturers, movie studios
High-definition optical disc format war
High-definition_optical_disc_format_war
Discontinued Analog video cassette recording format
analog videocassette recording format developed by Sony. It was one of the main competitors in the videotape format war against its primary rival, VHS
Betamax
Video tape standard
the videotape format war. Philips named the videotape standard Video Compact Cassette (VCC) to complement its landmark audio Compact Cassette format introduced
Video_2000
Analog videocassette recording format
pre-recorded videotapes for home viewing. Newer improved tape formats such as S-VHS were later developed, as well as the earliest optical disc format, LaserDisc;
VHS
Magnetic tape used for storing video and sound simultaneously
competing systems battled the videotape format war, which VHS ultimately won. In Europe, Philips had developed the Video 2000 format, which did not find favor
Videotape
American rock band
disco. The band took their name from the videotape format war of the 1970s and 1980s, where Sony's Beta format competed with JVC's VHS. VHS Or Beta was
VHS_or_Beta
Analog video disc playback system
"SelectaVision" brand on all RCA video products. Direct metal mastering Videotape format war Video High Density "RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc FAQ - What are the
Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
Competition between proprietary formats in the same market
A format war is a competition between similar but mutually incompatible technical standards that compete for the same market, such as for data storage
Format_war
Japanese electronics brand
earlier, became the main competitor for JVC's VHS format into the 1980s, creating the videotape format war. The Betamax cassette was smaller, with slightly
JVC
Technological features that become de facto industry standards
examples include: War of the currents between alternating- and direct-current electricity in the late 1800s. The videotape format war between Betamax and
Dominant_design
Actions in the present are dependent on previous decisions or experiences
increasing returns, positive feedback effects, or other mechanisms. The videotape format war is a key example of path dependence. Three mechanisms independent
Path_dependence
Convention that is widely accepted but unofficial
in the war of the currents. VHS over Betamax in the videotape format war. Blu-ray and HD DVD during the high-definition optical disc format war. Scalable
De_facto_standard
Obsolete optical disc format
the videotape format war between VHS and Betamax, HD DVD was competing with a rival format, Blu-ray Disc. In an attempt to avoid a costly format war, the
HD_DVD
Physical retail business that rents home videos
the videotape format war of the 1970s and 1980s, some stores initially stocked both VHS and Betamax cassettes, while others specialized in one format or
Video_rental_shop
a videotape format war as the primary recording and video devices beginning in 1976, but by the end of the decade VHS had become the dominant format. Also
1970s in science and technology
1970s_in_science_and_technology
Magnetic tape-based videocassette format for camcorders
The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats. These are the original Video8 format (analog video and analog audio but
8_mm_video_format
Data recording made of plastic film
tape-based formats include: Quadruplex videotape Ampex 2-inch helical VTR Type A videotape IVC videotape format Type B videotape Type C videotape EIAJ-1 U-matic
Magnetic_tape
distributed using a variety of formats, some of which store additional information. Timeline of audio formats Format war Demetris, Jordan (1990-01-01)
Timeline_of_video_formats
Device which records and plays back audio-visual media
follows the history of videotape recording in general. Ampex introduced the quadruplex videotape professional broadcast standard format with its Ampex VRX-1000
Videocassette_recorder
Device for recording video and audio on magnetic tape
quicker. Beginning in 1963, videotape machines made instant replay during televised sporting events possible. Improved formats, in which the tape was contained
Video_tape_recorder
Beatified American Catholic bishop and televangelist (1895–1979)
Newspapers.com. Sheen, Fulton J., narrator (1941). The Eternal Gift (Videotape). The Perpetual Novena. Weiner, Ed (1992). The 'TV Guide' TV Book. New
Fulton_J._Sheen
Digital electronic representation of moving visual images
standards D8 — DV-format data recorded on Hi8-compatible cassettes; largely a consumer format DCT — first digital videotape format to use data compression
Digital_video
Video distributed for home viewing
and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats such as DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray.
Home_video
Digital optical disc data storage format
can hold up to 50 GB. However, unlike previous format changes, e.g., vinyl to Compact Disc or VHS videotape to DVD, initially there was no immediate indication
DVD
Family of videotape recorders
the oxide surface facing out Type A videotape 1 inch type B videotape 1 inch type C videotape IVC videotape format about the IVC 2-inch helical VTR, Model
Ampex_2-inch_helical_VTR
Optical analog video disc format
home video format to support surround sound. Its resolution of 425 to 440 TV lines was nearly double that of competing consumer videotape formats, VHS and
LaserDisc
1982 film directed by Derek Burbidge
part of its Rock and Roll Picture series. The film has been released on videotape, CED, LaserDisc, and DVD. Portions of Urgh! appear elsewhere in film and
Urgh!_A_Music_War
Magnetic tape-based consumer videocassette format
labguysworld.com Funai Model F212A picture Compact Video Cassette (CVC) (1980 – 1983) at the Museum of Obsolete Media "The format war that Beta has won"
Compact_Video_Cassette
Video to film transfer technique
standard of the master videotape in question – NTSC, PAL, or SECAM – or likewise on the several emerging region-independent formats of high definition video
Film-out
American filmmaker (born 1963)
Soderbergh's directorial breakthrough, the indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, as well numerous
Steven_Soderbergh
Early recording process for live television
higher quality and the price of videotape had become much reduced. Before videotape became the exclusive recording format during the early to mid-1980s
Kinescope
2005 film by George Lucas
it may have come from within the industry rather than from someone who videotaped an advance screening. Eight people were later charged with copyright infringement
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Star_Wars:_Episode_III_–_Revenge_of_the_Sith
Currently lost episodes of Doctor Who
Associated Television, also deleted many programmes, including early videotaped episodes of The Avengers. Doctor Who is unusual in that each of its 95
Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
American audio and video recorder and storage media company
type A videotape (designated Type A by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, SMPTE) was an open-reel helical scan videotape format developed
Ampex
Lost NASA telemetry data tapes
1969 (2:56 UTC). At the time, the NTSC broadcast was recorded on many videotapes and kinescope films. Many of these low-quality recordings remain intact
Apollo_11_missing_tapes
Feature film produced for a TV network
inexpensive) method of recording a television program until the invention of videotape.[citation needed] Many television networks were against film programming
Television_film
Topics referred to by the same term
of Dolby noise-reduction system Type A videotape, a reel-to-reel helical scan analog recording videotape format Type A plug (see also NEMA connector) Type
A_type
2007 studio album by Radiohead
web series From the Basement, performing the future In Rainbows tracks "Videotape", "Down is the New Up" and "Last Flowers". He released his first solo
In_Rainbows
Intelligence in machines
sentiment analysis, wherein AI classifies the effects displayed by a videotaped subject. A machine with artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be
Artificial_intelligence
Video featuring a performance of a song
"demonic." Music videos have been released commercially on physical formats such as videotape, LaserDisc, DVD and Blu-ray. Similar to an audio album, a video
Music_video
1958 American TV series or program
Kent, and Dan Einstein, who restored the original videotape, transferring its contents to a modern format. The machines used for recording the program were
An_Evening_with_Fred_Astaire
1966 Doctor Who serial
performances, and new companions, though Dodo's departure was criticised. The videotapes and film prints were wiped by the BBC in the 1970s but subsequently recovered
The_War_Machines
aired until the 1990s,[vague] after which the BBC was supplied with NTSC videotape transfers of the first season instead of new film prints, resulting in
List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
List_of_Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_episodes
Format used to store digital video on DVDs
DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs. DVD-Video was the dominant consumer home video format in most of the world in the
DVD-Video
2016 film directed by Ang Lee
extra-clarity 3D in this Lee movie often looks weirdly like something shot on videotape in the 1980s." Much like The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which was
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film)
Billy_Lynn's_Long_Halftime_Walk_(film)
1995 American film by Tony Scott
writer Richard Henrick. While aboard, the Navy allowed the film crew to videotape Florida's Executive Officer, Lieutenant Commander William Toti, performing
Crimson_Tide_(film)
English actor (b. 1941)
each, which were, unusually for the time, recorded on outside broadcast videotape as opposed to film: Death of an Expert Witness (1983); Shroud for a Nightingale
Roy_Marsden
Era of professional wrestling (1995–2001)
Bischoff to come out and face them. A WWF camera crew videotaped the event for inclusion on Raw. Raw Is War's ratings began to rise steadily, bringing the "Attitude
Monday_Night_War
Japanese consumer electronics company
Brady Corporation in 2025. The decline of VHS videotape began with the introduction to market of the DVD format in 1997. Funai continued to manufacture VHS
Funai
Flat, usually circular disc that encodes binary data
Blu-ray eventually prevailed in a high definition optical disc format war over a competing format, the HD DVD. A standard Blu-ray disc can hold about 25 GB
Optical_disc
Removable disk storage medium
of 120 MB and backward-compatibility with standard 3½-inch floppies; a format war briefly occurred between SuperDisk and other high-density floppy-disk
Floppy_disk
Japanese multinational corporation
The company subsequently launched the Betamax format in 1975. Sony was involved in the videotape format war of the early 1980s, when it was marketing the
Sony
Historically popular gauge of film
1935, gave an enormous boost to its popularity. The format was used extensively during World War II (To the Shores of Iwo Jima), and there was a huge
16_mm_film
Analog high definition video equipment
- Albert Abramson - Google Books. McFarland. ISBN 9780786432431. "VIDEOTAPE FORMATS". www.tech-notes.tv. Archived from the original on 17 September 2019
Sony_HDVS
Multimedia delivery method
streaming (e.g., radio, television) or inherently non-streaming (e.g., books, videotapes, audio CDs). The term "streaming media" can apply to media other than
Streaming_media
1978 film directed by Adriano Stuart
of Chewbacca) Because of the special effects, the film was shot in videotape format, but was later expanded to 35mm in the United States, although there
Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas
Os_Trapalhões_na_Guerra_dos_Planetas
Method to store and retrieve computer data using optics
and 30 GB with a dual-layer. Blu-ray discs, which won the HDTV optical format war by defeating HD DVDs, can hold 25 GB for single-layer, 50 GB for dual-layer
Optical_storage
Films that present sexually explicit subject matter
offered better quality picture and sound than the previous video format (videotape) and allowed innovations such as "interactive" videos that let users
Pornographic_film
Data format used for audio compact discs
the standard format for audio compact discs. The standard is defined in the Red Book technical specifications, which is why the format is also dubbed
Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio
Topics referred to by the same term
theory B-type warbird, a type of Romulan starship Type B videotape, an open-reel videotape format Type B plug (see also NEMA connector) Curtiss-built B-type
B_type
American science-fiction television miniseries
overhead while on duty in El Salvador, records some of his findings on videotape and escapes from the mothership with the evidence. However, just as the
V_(1983_miniseries)
1978 American television special
Lucas reportedly said of the special: "I believe it will be released on videotape. I'm not sure if they're going to rerun it on television or not." In a
Star_Wars_Holiday_Special
Season of television series
titles) on public sale for a reduced price of $29.99, at a time when videotape titles typically sold for around $80. The move put the episode into the
Star Trek: The Original Series season 1
Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_season_1
Collection of books, materials and media
microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, table games, video games, and other formats. Libraries range widely
Library
2007 film directed by Brian De Palma
out their plan, with Salazar and McCoy accompanying them; the former to videotape the incident and the latter in the hopes of stopping them. McCoy tries
Redacted_(film)
1975 British TV drama series
series adhered to the typical format of BBC dramas from that era, using 16mm film for outdoor locations and studio videotape for interior scenes. Notably
Quiller_(TV_series)
American film director (born 1962)
observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats (sixteen-millimetre, Super 8, videotape) and collaborations with musicians. He also makes multichannel
Jem_Cohen
American sports announcer
Produced by NBC, the show followed a newsreel format with several minutes of government film about the war effort, interspersed with Forrest in the studio
Ray_Forrest
American horror anthology franchise
film; followed by the additional segments that feature as the horrific videotapes that the characters in the recurring wrap-around sequences discover. Calling
V/H/S_(franchise)
American television sitcom (1986–1990)
that year to serve as a series finale for the franchise. The series was videotaped at Century Studios, 8660 Hayden Place in Culver City California. In August
ALF_(TV_series)
Radio announcer and television talk show host (1933–2008)
episode would be videotaped in advance, not live or almost-live as Crane's local show had been. The length of the delay with videotape is unknown decades
Les_Crane
Interactive multimedia and video gaming standard
Disc-Interactive (CD-I, later CD-i) is a digital optical disc data storage format as well as a hardware platform, co-developed and marketed by Dutch company
CD-i
1993 film
Richie Namm – producer (videotape) Scott Rader – editor (videotape) Brad Fuss – director (videotape) Ken Hahn – audio post (videotape) Rob Perna – associate
Howard Stern videography and discography
Howard_Stern_videography_and_discography
Distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company
such as short 8 mm films for home movies. Disney's first releases on videotape were 13 titles that were licensed for rental to Fotomat on March 4, 1980
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Walt_Disney_Studios_Home_Entertainment
master videotape playback for making glass masters during the laserdisc replication process. Discovision later switched to using 1" Type C videotape around
International Video Corporation
International_Video_Corporation
Film by Chris Columbus
In the film, an alien force misinterprets videotaped footage of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, resulting in them attacking Earth with technological
Pixels_(2015_film)
1999 animated film by Brad Bird
nine-year-old boy with an active imagination. Marienthal's performances were videotaped and given to animators to work with, which helped them develop expressions
The_Iron_Giant
Decade of the Gregorian calendar
through the delivery of movies on videotapes for cable providers to broadcast. This proved problematic since the videotapes were often riddled with technical
1970s
President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
detained, and legislation making Illinois the first state to mandate videotaping of homicide interrogations. During his 2004 general election campaign
Barack_Obama
2001 American antitrust law case
Gates was called "evasive and nonresponsive" by a source present at his videotaped deposition. He argued over the definitions of words such as "compete"
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
Crowdsourced born-digital description of the UK, published in 1986
(who hold the original Domesday Book) tracked down the original 1-inch videotape masters of the project. These were digitised and archived to Digital Betacam
BBC_Domesday_Project
Part of the Second Chechen War
Driver"), and the men under his command carried out the mass murder and videotaped its entire process. Junior Sergeant Pavel Sharonov and Private Alexey
Komsomolskoye_massacre
Subgenre of horror fiction
Straub's Local 58 is a series of YouTube videos presented as authentic videotaped footage of a television station that has been continuously hijacked over
Analog_horror
1939 film by Ford Beebe
into feature film format in the late 1970s, this version simply entitled Buck Rogers with the theatrical poster advertising, "Star Wars owes it all to Buck
Buck_Rogers_(serial)
1991 American political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone
3/4" videotape and edited on videotape. The 35 mm film negative, along with the other sized film stocks were then conformed to match the videotape edit
JFK_(film)
American television series
than on videotape, however, and it was long thought to have survived only on a black-and-white kinescope version. In 2021, the color videotape version
Playhouse_90
British and American filmmaker (born 1970)
The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-16551-8. Eberl, Jason T.; Dunn
Christopher_Nolan
series were made in black-and-white. The first three were pre-recorded on videotape (except where noted) with occasional filmed inserts. Beginning with series
List of The Avengers (TV series) episodes
List_of_The_Avengers_(TV_series)_episodes
Television transmission technology
introduced a color videotape recorder in 1958, which NBC used to tape An Evening with Fred Astaire, the oldest surviving network color videotape. This system
Color_television
List of the first achievements in cinema
screen, so slightly above 720p (albeit as a B&W, interlaced, 4/3 format). Videotape was transferred to 35 mm film for distribution. The Silencers becomes
List_of_cinematic_firsts
British TV sitcom (1969–1991)
World War I (as Private Lurk). A few years later, the BBC made one final special called Further up Pompeii! (with exclamation mark) in 1975. The format of
Up_Pompeii!
American cable network
reverse order, and edited to look like they were being played from degraded videotapes with poorly-done fansubs (either containing grammatically incorrect English
Adult_Swim
two of which were released as download singles: "I Promise" and "Man of War". In June 2019, several hours of recordings from the OK Computer period leaked
Radiohead_discography
American television host and author (1928–2003)
Rogers, began airing nationally in 1968 and ran for 895 episodes. It was videotaped at WQED in Pittsburgh and broadcast by National Educational Television
Fred_Rogers
American musician and actor (1942–2021)
in the home video market, producing and distributing a wide variety of videotaped programs, although the company eventually ceased operations after an acrimonious
Michael_Nesmith
American screenwriter and producer (1922–2023)
Maude). Most of these Lear sitcoms share three features: they were shot on videotape in place of film, used a live studio audience, and dealt with current
Norman_Lear
other videotape recorder, using the rotating-head technology that was standard for video. A similar technology was used for a consumer format, known
History_of_sound_recording
Data storage technologies that use magnetic tape
is used by virtually all current videotape systems and several data tape formats.[citation needed] In a typical format, data is written to tape in blocks
Magnetic-tape_data_storage
Decade of the Gregorian calendar (1980–1989)
Mission, Under the Sun of Satan, Pelle the Conqueror and Sex, Lies, and Videotape. The highest-grossing films of the decade are (in order from highest to
1980s
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