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

Older videos from dashboard cameras that are still stored on magnetic videotape would also be expunged, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

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

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2025

“Adriana was afraid that, since there was nothing in the contract about videotape back when she did the voice and ‘Snow White’ was about to come out on videotape,” recalled Woodman.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

That’s what you would have seen, if I showed you a videotape of our meeting.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell