Sentence examples for tape format from inspiring English sources

Other electronics stores supported the VHS tape format a bit longer.

Camcorders using the MiniDV tape format were among the cheapest on the market.

MicroMV, a tape format used by some Sony digital camcorders, comes in cassettes that are even smaller than MiniDV tapes.

It takes years for a new tape format to make its way from expensive specialty stores to everyday drugstores.

VHS recorders won the battle for the time-shifting tape format, which were succeeded by DVD recorders and hard-drive based digital video recorders (DVR) starting in 1999.

Personal portable video, as the new concept is called, developed as an outgrowth of the eight-millimeter tape format introduced by Sony in 1985.

Analog tape formats include VHS and Hi-8, while digital camcorders often use tapes in the MiniDV format.

As a bonus, the same deck can transfer other old tape formats, like 8 millimeter and Hi-8.

Both video cassette tape formats were superseded by the video CD in 1993 – a standard defined by JVC, Matsushita, Philips and Sony, the successor to the 1979 LaserDisc.

Two rival tape formats aimed at medium-size businesses, DDS-4 and DAT 72, cost $37.50 and $33 per gigabyte, respectively.

The common 4-millimeter tape formats, long used to back up an entire hard drive, can handle only 36 gigabytes, so for the first time one tape cartridge will have failed to back up an entire average-size disk.