Betacam
Videos
Betacam is a family of professional half-inch tape video formats and videocassette products, developed by Sony from 1982. In colloquial use, Betacam singly is often used to refer to a Betacam camcorde
A black Betacam SP videocassette (L size) from Sony; a blue Digital Betacam videocassette from Maxell
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A Betacam SP format camcorder (Sony UVW-100B) in the newsroom of KTAB-TV/KRBC-TV, 2009
An early Betacam cassette (left) next to a Betamax cassette (right)
Betamax
Videos
Betamax is a discontinued consumer 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 was i
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…itself. Both analog, and later, digital, variants of the Betacam format have existed. The original Betacam format, which used the same cassettes as Betamax, supplanted the three-quarter-inch U-Matic format, which Sony had co-introduced in 1971. In addition to improvements in video quality by using split…
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Three Sony Betamax VCRs built for the American market. Top to bottom: SL-2000 portable with TT-2000 tuner/timer "Base Station" (1982); SL-HF 300 Betamax HiFi unit (1984); SL-HF 360 SuperBeta HiFi unit (1988).
The underside of a Betamax cassette