VX (videocassette format)
Magnetic tape-based consumer videocassette format / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
VX was a consumer analog recording videocassette format developed by Matsushita launched in 1975 in Japan which was short-lived and unsuccessful. In the United States, it was sold using the Quasar brand and marketed under the name "The Great Time Machine" to exhibit its time-shifting capabilities, since VX machines had a companion electro-mechanical clock timer for timed recording of television programs. In Japan, the VX-100 model was launched in 1975, with the VX-2000 following in 1976. The first and only model sold in North America was the Quasar VR-1000 (based on the Panasonic VX-2000), with the VT-100 timer.
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Media type | Magnetic Tape |
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Encoding | NTSC, PAL |
Standard | Interlaced video |
Usage | Home movies |
Released | 1975 |
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