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- VTR redirects here. For other meanings, see VTR (disambiguation).
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.
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Technologies
Video tape recorder technologies include:
Analog reel-to-reel
- VERA (BBC)
- 2" Quadruplex (Ampex,(RCA and (Bosch's Fernseh)
- 1" Type A (Ampex)
- 1" Type B (Bosch's Fernseh - BTS Philips)
- IVC 2 inch Helical scan (International Video Corporation's IVC 9000 Format)
- 1" Type C (Sony, Ampex, NEC and Hitachi)
Professional cassette / cartridge based systems
 A Betamax video tape by BASF. |
Standard definition Digital video tape formats
- D1 (Sony) and Broadcast Television Systems Inc.
- D2 (Sony and Ampex)
- D3 (Panasonic)
- DCT (Ampex)
- Digital Betacam (Sony)
- Betacam IMX (Sony)
- DVCAM (Sony)
- DVCPRO (Panasonic)
- D9 (Digital-S) (JVC)
High definition Digital video tape formats
- HDCAM (Sony)
- HDCAM-SR (Sony)
- D5 HD (Panasonic)
- D6 HDTV VTR (BTS - Philips - Thomson SA - Grass Valley (company))
- DVCPROHD (Panasonic)
- D-VHS (JVC and 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
History of video tape recording
See also
- Videocassette recorder for a full treatment of domestic formats.
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