LabGuy's World:
The History of Video Tape Recorders before Betamax and VHS
![JVC GC-4800U Two tube hand held color portapack camera 1976](FrontPix1.jpg) ![Sony AVC-3400 Hand held B/W vidicon portapack camera 1970](FrontPix2.jpg) ![Sony AV-5000A EIAJ BW / Color (pilot tone) Videocorder 1971](FrontPix3.jpg) ![Magnavox Chroma Vue 550 Single tube hand held color camera](FrontPix4.jpg)
Find out where that VCR in your living
room came from. Read about video hardware that has been extinct a very
long time. At LabGuy's World, you can tour the virtual museum, flip through
the catalog of extinct video recorders and cameras, browse the time line
of video recording history, figure out how to hook up that gnarly antique
you just bought at a yard sale AND much, much more!
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Webmaster: Richard N. Diehl. On the web since October, 1997.
Last updated: May 12, 2014
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