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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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
The early-form Betacam tapes (left) are interchangeable with Betamax (right), though the recordings are not.
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
Betamax
…arrival of Betacam reduced the demand for both industrial Beta and U-Matic equipment. For the professional and broadcast video industry, Sony derived Betacam from Betamax. Released in 1982, Betacam became the most widely used videotape format in electronic news gathering, replacing the .75 in (19 mm) wide…
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