Cartrivision
Videos
Cartrivision is an analog video tape cartridge format introduced in 1972, and the first format to offer feature films for consumer rental.
Cartrivision
Video Cassette Recording
Videos
Video Cassette Recording is an early domestic analog recording format designed by Philips. It was the first successful consumer-level home videocassette recorder system. Later variants included the VC
Cartrivision
…such as a stand-alone Cartrivision player in its own chassis with an RF modulator to hook it up to any TV set, much like later VCRs. Like Philips' Video Cassette Recording (VCR) format (introduced at the same time in Europe), the square Cartrivision cassette had the two reels of half-inch magnetic tape mounted on top of…
An N1500 video recorder, with wooden cabinet.
VCR-format video cassettes with one inside a case (left) and the other on its own (right). A CD is shown for scale.
Philips N1702. A VCR-LP recorder.
The rare Grundig SVR4004 machine.