Television film
Videos
A television film is a film with a running time similar to a feature film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a terrestrial or cable television broadcaster. It is in contrast to theat
Stanley Adams (left) and Claude Rains in the television musical The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1957
Advertisement for Satan's School for Girls, September 19, 1973
Home video
Videos
Home video is recorded media sold or rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats
Some home video users have a collection of prerecorded media, such as movies, on DVDs. DVDs are only one of a number of ways of viewing home video.
Movie boxes on display at a video rental store
By the 2000s, home video purchasers moved away from videotapes, increasingly preferring DVDs. Pictured is a cart of used videotape movies on sale at a used-goods market in 2004.
Early UHD Blu-ray release at Best Buy: A UHD Blu-ray disc player was also released.