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
Cassetta Betacam Mbc FN 120612 150103 s
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)
U-matic
Videos
3⁄4-inch Type E Helical Scan or SMPTE E is an analog recording videocassette format marketed by Sony Electronics Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Victor Co. of Japan. It was initial
Betacam
…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 component video, the Betacam configuration…
Sony U-matic cassette
U-matic (back row, left) compared to Video8 (center) small Betacam tape (back, right), VHS (front, left) and MII (front, right)
Large U-matic cassette
Sony U-matic SP tape recorder