Cost varies depending on videotape format and duration to be copied.
MicroMV was a proprietary videotape format introduced in 2001 by Sony.
The show moved to a videotape format sometime after 1958.
Other videotape formats with heterodyne color systems include Video-8 and Hi8.
Sony initiates the three-quarter-inch videotape format known as U-matic.
After this point, however, cheap domestic videotape formats such as VHS could more easily be used to keep a back-up reference copy of a program.
Was VHS the first videotape format?
It is the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful videotape format known as 2" Quadruplex.
This method was called quadrature scanning, as opposed to the helical scan transport used by later videotape formats.
Beta was the name of a domestic videotape format developed by Japan's Sony Corporation in the 1970s and 1980s.