A New Small Format VTR Using an 8mm Cassette

Toshiaki Kawamura, Susumu Kasai, Tamotsu Tominaga, Hideo Sato, Minoru Inatsu

In 1982, Hitachi Denshi developed a highly compact portable combined camera/VTR system utilizing the 1/4ʺ format that was well suited for ENG applications. Shortly thereafter, an effort to standardize the 1/4ʺ small format VTR was made by the SMPTE.2,3 However, the effort ended without success due to user anxiety about metal tape, etc.

Published
1986-02
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/M00778
ISBN
978-1-61482-915-7