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)
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
Videotape format war
…Following the videotape format war, VHS was dominant until the creation of DVD technology. A minor skirmish arose over DIVX, but it died a quick death. Video 2000, a system developed by Grundig and Philips in 1979 was available for PAL and SECAM and distributed only in Europe, South Africa and Argentina. The major…
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