videotape

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Ampex invented the first videotape recorder for professional use in 1956, a $50,000 machine that CBS used to tape and broadcast reruns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

It’s funny how just the grainy, washed-out look of videotape can conjure so much melancholy.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

Authentic videotape from that time and the shallow, kitschy music take you back to the time of the “Me Generation” and every low-brow cliché of the 70s through the Reagan years.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2024

In her first few viewings of the videotape, Marcia Clark had the gnawing sense that he was lying.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

When I finish, I rush to the kitchen, only to find a scene so melodramatic that for a second I think I have walked out of Ousting, the videotape, and into an entirely different movie.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich