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    U-matic or 3⁄4-inch Type E Helical Scan or SMPTE E is an analogue recording videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969, and...
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  • U-matic machines in the U.S. in its first year. "Television on a Disk", Time, 18 September 1972. Nicknamed in latter years "Betamax-VHS" The U-matic vcr...
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    design similar to that of the earlier, professional 0.75-inch-wide (19 mm), U-matic format.[citation needed] Like the rival videotape format VHS (introduced...
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  • album by South Korean band Onewe 3⁄4″ videocassette, better known as the U-matic format March 4 (month-day date notation) 3 April (day-month date notation)...
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    Aleksandar Matić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Матић; born 26 April 1978), better known as Saša Matić is a Bosnian pop-folk singer. Matić was born on 26...
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    prototype for the first widespread video cassette, the ¾ʺ (1.905 cm) composite U-matic system, which Sony introduced commercially in September 1971 after working...
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    recording standard for the Japanese consumer. The effort produced the U-matic format in 1971, which was the first cassette format to become a unified...
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    or sold commercially. U-matic (1971): Tape originally used by Sony to record video U-matic S (1974): A smaller version of U-matic, used for portable recorders...
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  • they support for recording. Crystal oscillator frequencies Specifically U-matic cassettes Digital audio recording using a VCR as the transport and this...
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  • using a video camera, projected film loops, and switching between two U-matic video decks. She solicited the public to collaborate. The club showcased...
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    Sony's Betamax, which is at its basis a 1/2″ consumer version of U-matic), while PAL U-matic decks came in two mutually incompatible varieties, with different...
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  • format has been inserted. The format supplanted the three-quarter-inch U-Matic format, which Sony had introduced in 1971. In addition to improvements...
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    used for recording, similar to the U wrap which is reminiscent of an U laid on its side and is used in the U-matic format. Because the tape is not wrapped...
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  • popular 1970-80s system for creating these transitions was the U-matic equipment (named for the U-shaped tape path). That system used two tape players and one...
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  • Quadruplex videotape (Ampex 1956) 1" Type A videotape (Ampex) 1/2" EIAJ (1969) U-matic 3/4" (Sony) 1/2" Cartrivision (Avco) VCR, VCR-LP, SVR 1" Type B videotape...
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    possible; and the first consumer videocassette recorder, which used the U-matic format, was introduced by Sony in 1971. In early 1951, Bing Crosby asked...
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    videocassette tape (though not to be confused with the ubiquitous 3/4-inch U-Matic/U-Matic SP cassette). The uncompressed component video used enormous bandwidth...
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    (SVR) formats. The VCR format was introduced in 1972, just after the Sony U-matic format in 1971. Although at first glance the two might appear to have been...
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    the 3.5-inch floppy disk, compact disc and Blu-ray disc. Sony introduced U-matic, the world's first videocassette format, in 1971, but the standard was...
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    by Sony, JVC, and others used such formats as U-Matic videocassettes (with reduced-size 20-minute "U-Matic S" cassettes) and Betacam SP (for which a Portapak...
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    Sledge-O-Matic act, an example of physical prop comedy, was a parody of the unintentionally humorous advertisements for the Ronco Veg-O-Matic, a kitchen...
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    price of US$40,000 (equivalent to $186,857 in 2023) used with an external U-matic tape drive, making digital recording commercially available to recording...
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    videotape IVC videotape format Type B videotape Type C videotape EIAJ-1 U-matic Video Cassette Recording Cartrivision VHS VHS-C S-VHS Digital S W-VHS D-VHS...
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  • pilot episode remains in the BBC's archives in the form of a low-band U-matic video recording, while the seven-episode series was preserved on the original...
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    without Jews. Matić died on 23 August 2024, at the age of 62. Pavelić, Boris (3 June 2019). "PREDRAG FRED MATIĆ Jedini sam zastupnik u Europskom parlamentu...
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    Productions.; Coronet/MTI Film and Video.; VHS video : Beta : Primary school : U-matic, Language: English, Publisher: Deerfield, IL : Coronet/MTI Film & Video...
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  • machines and the first VCR cassette formats, the Philips and the Sony U-matic, used this system. Later, the JVC VHS and the Sony Betamax used slant azimuth...
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    playback function of PAL cassette format VCRs, beginning with the Sony 3/4" U-Matic format and then following onto Betamax and VHS format machines, commonly...
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    Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the twin brother of Saša Matić, also a popular singer. Dejan Matić was born in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the son of...
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    Sony introduced the first successful videocassette system, the U-matic format. The U-Matic system offered many advantages over EIAJ-1, including color recording...
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