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A FEW
THE SUN
YEARS
(Melbourne)
AHEAD OF
July 6, 1955 ITS TIME!

This interesting article from
1955 suggests that film will
soon be finished as a medium
for television recording and
that video tape will be the
predominant medium.

In 1956, The Ampex VRX-
1000 became the world's first
commercially successful
videotape recorder. It used 4
heads to record onto two-inch
tape. It came with a price tag
of US$50,000.
A number of manufacturers
marketed reel to reel VTRs in
the early 1960s, but the need
to thread the tape, together
An early Ampex 2 inch VTR. with their limited features
limited their popularity.

Consumer video cassette
recorders, (VCRs) were still a
few years off, the first on
offer was the Sony U-matic
One of the first VCRs to be of-
fered on the Australian market (3/4″ tape) system, released in
- Sanyo VTC-9300 September 1971. These were
mostly used by institutions
such as universities, schools,
businesses, etc.

True home video recorders
arrived in the 1970s, with
Sony’s beta system, followed
by VHS (Video Home
The JVC VHS recorder arrived System) developed JVC.
about the same time as the
Sanyo. Initially, the Beta format Source: Wikipedia.
was the favoured format here.

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