Video tape recorder
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A video tape recorder (VTR), is a tape recorder that can record video material. The video cassette recorder (VCR), where the videotape is enclosed in a user-friendly videocassette shell, is the most familiar type of VTR known to consumers. Professionals may use other types of video tapes and recorders.
[edit] History of video tape recording
[edit] Technologies
Video tape recorder technologies include:
Analog reel-to-reel
- VERA (BBC)
- 2" Quadruplex (Ampex) - (RCA) - (Bosch)
- 1" Type A (Ampex)
- 1" Type B (Bosch - BTS Philips)
- 1" Type C (Sony, Ampex) and Hitachi
Professional cassette / cartridge based systems
 A Betamax video tape by BASF. |
Standard definition Digital video tape formats
- D1 (Sony)
- D2 (Sony and Ampex)
- D3 (Panasonic)
- DCT (Ampex)
- Digital Betacam (Sony)
- Betacam IMX (Sony)
- DVCAM (Sony)
- DVCPRO (Panasonic)
- D9 (D-VHS) (JVC)
High definition Digital video tape formats
- HDCAM (Sony)
- HDCAM-SR (Sony)
- D5 HD (Panasonic)
- D6 HD (BTS - Philips - Thomson SA - Grass Valley (company))
- DVCPROHD (Panasonic)
- HDV (Sony and JVC)
Consumer formats
- DV (miniDV is the cassette size)
- Digital8 (Sony)
- Video 2000 (Philips)
- Betamax
- VHS
- S-VHS (JVC)
- VHS-C (JVC)
- Video8
- Hi8™
- MicroMV™
- Cartrivision
See video cassette recorder for a full treatment of domestic formats.
