VHS Tapes
VHS Tape (Video Home System - VHS) was a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. Developed by Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in the early 1970s, it was released in Japan in late 1976 and in the United States in early 1977.
VHS-C is the compact VHS videocassette format, introduced by Victor Company of Japan in 1982, and used primarily for consumer-grade compact analog recording camcorders.
Hi8 (high-band Video8) was an analogue 8mm video format for camcorders, based on the older Video8 format. It was introduced by Sony in 1989 to counter the introduction of S-VHS-C (the compact version of S-VHS).
Video8 was an analogue video tape cassette format using 8mm tape, designed primarily for use in camcorders such as the Sony Handycam line introduced by Sony in 1985.
MiniDV is a digital video tape format which, for a while, was the most popular format for home video cameras. MiniDV uses the same compression as DV. MiniDV cassettes are 65 x 48 x 12 mm. Record time is 60 minutes (standard play) or 90 minutes (extended/long play)
Betamax (also called Beta) is a consumer-level analog-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video. It was developed by Sony and was released in Japan on May 10, 1975.
MicroMV is a proprietary videotape format introduced in October 2001 by Sony. It is the smallest videotape format — 70% smaller than MiniDV or about the size of two US quarter coins;it is also smaller than a Digital8 or DV cassette.
PAL video tape (Phase Alternating Line) is a colour encoding system for analogue television used in broadcast television systems in most foreign countries broadcasting at 625-line / 50 field (25 frame) per second (576i).
Digital8 (or D8) is an obsolete consumer digital recording videocassette for camcorders based on the 8 mm video format developed by Sony, and introduced in 1999.
Panasonic released its own variant of the DV format for broadcast news-gathering.
Sony's answer to the DVCPRO.
U-matic is an analogue recording videocassette format first shown by Sony and introduced to the market in 1971. It was among the first video formats to contain the videotape inside a cassette, as opposed to the various reel-to-reel or open-reel formats of the time.
Betacam is a family of half-inch professional videocassette products developed by Sony in 1982. In colloquial use, "Betacam" singly is often used to refer to a Betacam tape and later upgraded to BetaSP. This foramt also comes in two sizes.
DigiBeta is a digital video tape format that was launched in 1993 by Sony, superseding both Betacam and Betacam SP. It gave superior performance to DVCAM and DVCPRO. This foramt also comes in two sizes.
Eastman Kodak made celluloid film commercially available in 1889.He first developed 16mm stock, but in 1932 during the Great Depression and released to the market less expensive 8mm film stock. The 35mm film stock most known for its use in motion pictures was released by Thomas Edision in 1892.
There are several film reel sizes, these are the most common ones.
The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. It was released by Philips in 1962.
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.
Reel-to/open-reel audio tape recording is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette.Reels can come in a number of sizes.
A slide is a specially mounted individual transparency intended for projection onto a screen using a slide projector. This allows the photograph to be viewed by a large audience at once. The most common form is the 35 mm slide, with the image framed in a 2×2 inch cardboard or plastic mount.
The term 35 mm camera usually refers to a still photographic film camera which uses the 35 mm format on 135 film. Such cameras have been produced by Leica, Kodak, Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Olympus, Contax, Pentax, Carl Zeiss, Fujifilm, and numerous other companies.
