videocassette

Example Sentences

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And videocassette recorders allowed people to record their favorite shows and play them at different times.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

He continued to publish into the 1980s, when he realized that people were more likely to watch a film on videocassette than experience it through a book-length, frame-by-frame reconstruction.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2023

I like to think of the streetcars as being like the Betamax videocassette.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

The diversity of material recorded on videocassette and, in many cases, never digitized is part of what makes the format so appealing to longtime VHS collectors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2022

But Deborah waved her hand in my face, shushing me like I was talking nonsense, then fished a videocassette from the pile and held it up for me to see.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot