Videotape format war
Videos
The videotape format war was a period of competition or "format war" of incompatible models of consumer-level analog videocassette formats and video cassette recorders in the late 1970s and the 1980s,
Size comparison between a Betamax cassette (top) and a VHS cassette (bottom)
Videotape
Videos
Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition. Information stored can be in the form of either an analog or digital signal. The tape can come in a stand-alone tape re
An assortment of videotapes
A 14-inch (36 cm) reel of 2-inch (5.1 cm) videotape compared with a modern-day MiniDV videocassette. Both media store one hour of color video.
U-matic tape
Video 8 (left), VHS (right) and MiniDV (bottom)