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Posted by Bill on 01/22/08 19:36
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> As I seem to remember, the idea of offering pre-recorded movies on VHS
> tape was first started by an independent company back in 1980, as it was
> already understood that most early-adopters who owned the first
> recordable tape machines were using their first "big" tape-practice
> to....tape movies off of TV. (Usually "2001".)
>
The company was Magnetic Video. Their initial catalog consisted of at
least 50 titles from 20th Century Fox, including "The Sound of Music."
Their first releases though, if I remember correctly, were in the Beta
format, in the late 70s.
The notion of offering movies and other such programming to the average
consumer was there before this endeavor, however. One casualty of the
home video revolution in the early to mid 70s was a non-recordable
format from Columbia called EVR. It utilized a film cassette, and
playback equipment containing a flying spot scanner that converted the
image into a standard NTSC signal. Also, work on what was to become the
Laser Disc was already underway in the early 70s.
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