Video 2000
Videos
Video 2000 is a consumer videocassette system and analog recording standard developed by Philips and Grundig to compete with JVC's VHS and Sony's Betamax video technologies. It was designed for the PA
A Video 2000 videocassette
A Video 2000 tape alongside VHS and Beta tapes
The Philips VR2020 was the first mass-marketed model for the Video 2000 format sold in the United Kingdom.
A Pye 20VR22 recorder
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
Video 2000
…Argentina and ended in 1988. Although some initial models and advertising featured a mirror-image "VCR" badge based on the logo of Philips's earlier Video Cassette Recording (VCR) system, Video 2000 was an entirely new (and incompatible) format, which incorporated many technical innovations. Despite this, the format was not…
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.