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
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
Type C videotape
Videos
1-inch Type C Helical Scan or SMPTE C is a professional reel-to-reel analog recording helical scan videotape format co-developed by Ampex and Sony in 1976. The format uses 1-inch-wide tape and became
U-matic
…19 mm) tape, earning it the nickname "three-quarter-inch" or simply "three-quarter," in contrast to larger open-reel formats like 1 in (25 mm) Type C videotape and 2 in (51 mm) quadruplex videotape. The first generation of U-matic VCRs are large devices, approximately 30 in (76 cm) wide, 24 in (61 cm) deep…
Sony BVH-2000 1-inch VTR
Ampex VPR6 VTR
1 inch reel to reel tape
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