U-matic
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-inch Type E Helical Scan or SMPTE E is an analog recording videocassette format marketed by Sony Electronics Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) and Victor Co. of Japan (JVC). It was initially developed by Sony and shown as a prototype in October 1969, refined and standardized among the three manufacturers in March 1970, and introduced commercially in September 1971 by Sony. The format was branded U-matic by Sony, U-Vision by Panasonic and U-VCR by JVC, referring to the U-shaped tape path as it threads around the video drum.
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Vinony's link graph records 579 inbound references to U-matic, and connects out to compact disc, television program and videotape.
It is catalogued under topics including Audiovisual introductions in 1971, Composite video formats and Discontinued media formats.
Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Media.name
- U-matic
- Media.logo
- U-matic logo.svgclass=skin-invert
- Media.image
- U-matic.jpg
- Media.caption
- Sony U-matic cassette
- Media.type
- Magnetic cassette tape, ¾-inch
- Media.encoding
- NTSC, PAL, SECAM
- Media.released
- September 1971
- Media.discontinued
- June 2000Technical support: 2016
- Media.read
- Helical scan drum
- Media.write
- Helical scan drum
- Media.owner
- Sony
- Media.use
- Video production
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- broadcast television system
- Owned by
- Sony Group
- Image
- U-matic.jpg
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- Commons category
- U-Matic
- inception
- 1969-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Development
- U-matic Hi-band
- U-matic Hi-Band SP
- Introduction
- Cassettes
- Models
- Problems
- Uses
- Digital audio
- Decline of use
- References
- Further reading
- External links
-inch Type E Helical Scan or SMPTE E is an analog recording videocassette format marketed by Sony Electronics Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) and Victor Co. of Japan (JVC). It was initially developed by Sony and shown as a prototype in October 1969, refined and standardized among the three manufacturers in March 1970, and introduced commercially in September 1971 by Sony. The format was branded U-matic by Sony, U-Vision by Panasonic and U-VCR by JVC, referring to the U-shaped tape path as it threads around the video drum.
The format was among the earliest video formats to house videotape inside a cassette, replacing the reel-to-reel systems common at the time. The format uses tape, earning it the nickname "three-quarter-inch" or simply "three-quarter," in contrast to larger open-reel formats like Type C videotape and quadruplex videotape.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “U-matic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.