Aw man... Now you've done it. Have you ever heard of the other, (kind of) third contestant in the video format wars, Video 2000? It was Philips' answer to the video format war (only in Europe, though.). There was also the "original" home format (albeit in a small capacity) U-Matic. And before that you had open reel video tape in the 60's, I believe. I've spent way to long researching this kind of thing. Not to mention all the time I've spent finding all these machines.Bruh, I'm old enough that I lived through the Beta vs VHF wars. The failure of laserdiscs outside of libraries. Don't speak of the elder video codecs to me.
No clue on Video 2000, but I remember the U-Matics were even bigger than the first gen pop-up VHS players. On reel to reel, well, that's all in the realm of 8mm and 16mm film. Nearly everyone in my generation has had to sit through vacation slides and grainy, vertigo inducing home films shot on a Super 8.Aw man... Now you've done it. Have you ever heard of the other, (kind of) third contestant in the video format wars, Video 2000? It was Philips' answer to the video format war (only in Europe, though.). There was also the "original" home format (albeit in a small capacity) U-Matic. And before that you had open reel video tape in the 60's, I believe. I've spent way to long researching this kind of thing. Not to mention all the time I've spent finding all these machines.