Betamax (also known as Beta, and stylized as the Greek letter β in its logo) is a discontinued consumer analog videocassette recording format developed by Sony. It was one of the main competitors in the videotape format war against its primary...
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 (VCRs) in the late 1970s and the 1980s, mainly involving the Betamax and VHS...
VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced on September 9, 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC, a subsidiary of Matsushita). It was the dominant home video format...
Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984), also known as the "Betamax case", is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the making of individual copies of complete television shows for...
Betacam is a family of professional half-inch tape video formats and videocassette products, developed by Sony from 1982. In colloquial use, Betacam singly is often used to refer to a Betacam camcorder, a Betacam tape, a Betacam video recorder or...
A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV sources and can play back the recording from the tape. The use of a VCR to record a...
The Victor Company of Japan, Limited (日本ビクター株式会社, Nihon Bikutā kabushiki gaisha), abbreviated and branded as JVC, was a Japanese electronics company. While defunct as an independent entity as of 2008, it survives as a brand owned and operated by its...
Betamovie is a series of consumer-grade camcorders developed by Sony for the Betamax videotape format. As a camcorder, each unit combined a video camera and a video recorder into a single device. Betamovie camcorders recorded onto standard Betamax...
A camcorder is a self-contained portable electronic device with video and audio recording as its primary function. The earliest camcorders were tape-based, recording analog signals onto videotape cassettes. In the 2000s, digital recording became the...
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers....