Video Tape Recorder - Formats and Products

Formats and Products

Video tape recorder technologies include:

Analog reel-to-reel
  • 1" Type A (Ampex)
  • 1" Type B (Bosch's Fernseh - BTS Philips)
  • 1" Type C (Sony, Ampex, NEC and Hitachi)
  • 2" Quadruplex (Ampex, RCA and Bosch's Fernseh)
  • Ampex 2 inch helical VTR
  • IVC 2 inch Helical scan (International Video Corporation's IVC 9000 Format)
  • VERA (BBC)
Professional cassette and cartridge based systems
  • Betacam (Sony)
  • Betacam SP (Sony)
  • M-II (Panasonic)
  • U-matic (3/4")
Standard definition digital videotape formats
  • D1 (Sony) and Broadcast Television Systems Inc.
  • D2 (Sony and Ampex)
  • D3 (Panasonic)
  • D5 (Panasonic)
  • D9 (Digital-S) (JVC)
  • Betacam IMX (Sony)
  • DCT (Ampex)
  • Digital Betacam (Sony)
  • DVCAM (Sony)
  • DVCPRO (Panasonic)
High definition digital video tape formats
  • D5 HD (Panasonic)
  • D6 HDTV VTR (BTS - Philips - Thomson SA - Grass Valley (company))
  • DVCPROHD (Panasonic)
  • D-VHS (JVC and Panasonic)
  • HD
  • HDCAM (Sony)
  • HDCAM-SR (Sony)
Consumer format
  • Betamax
  • Cartrivision
  • Digital8 (Sony)
  • DV (miniDV is the cassette size)
  • EIAJ Half inch open reel and cassette
  • Hi8
  • MicroMV
  • S-VHS (JVC)
  • Video8
  • Video 2000 (Philips)
  • VHS
  • VHS-C (JVC)
  • VX (videocassette format)

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