the first vhs camcorder came out in 1985.
the first vhs camcorder came out in 1985.
when did the first vhs camcorder come out?
1985
sony released the first consumer camcorder in 1983, the betamovie bmc-100p. it used a betamax cassette and rested on the operator's shoulder, due to a design not permitting a single-handed grip. that year, jvc released the first vhs-c camcorder. kodak announced a new camcorder format in 1984, the 8 mm video format. sony introduced its compact 8 mm video8 format in 1985. that year, panasonic, rca and hitachi began producing camcorders using a full-size vhs cassette with a three-hour capacity. these shoulder-mount camcorders were used by videophiles, industrial videographers and college tv studios. full-size super-vhs (s-vhs) camcorders were released in 1987, providing an inexpensive way to collect news segments or other videographies. sony upgraded video8, releasing the hi8 in competition with s-vhs.
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vhs manufacturers found a better solution to drum miniaturization (it involved four heads doing the work of two). because it used standard video signals, vhs camcorders could review footage in the camcorder and copy to another vcr for editing. this shifted the home movie advantage dramatically away from betamax, and was a primary reason for the loss of beta market share: owners of beta vcrs found that a vhs camcorder would allow them to copy and edit footage to their beta deck – something that betamovie could not do. if rental movies were not available in beta, they could rent them in vhs and use their camcorder to play them. owners of vhs vcrs could also choose a variant camcorder format called vhs-c. this used a miniaturized cassette to make a camcorder smaller and lighter than any betamovie.
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