Among all the brands and types of recorders and cameras, there was a special brand that entered the market very briefly among all the brands with VHS, Video2000: Technicolor. The brand still exists and has an extraordinary history behind it in its existence.

The JVC GR-C1 is perhaps the most iconic video camera ever made and sold. It was one of the first cameras used in a real movie. It worked with standard VHS tapes, but in a much smaller housing. This camera was the start of a video camera race around the world. It is also the only camera in my timeline that I never purchased or sourced myself, but I actually got to work with it and I still have a tape in my big box with recordings to prove it. I just have no idea what I filmed and thus what is on that tape.

The Sony CCD-V8 AF was the first 8mm Video camera with an integrated camera. Compared to its predecessors: the JVC and Philips Video 2000 portable recorders with external cameras, this was a lightweight revolution. This beautiful camera was introduced to the market in 1985. The built-in recorder had an 8mm […]

In the 1970s, Philips and Grundig developed and marketed the Video 2000 system as a competitor to VHS and Betamax VCRs. We once had a Sony Betamax recorder in stock and it was sold. Betamax had the best quality picture and sound at the time but was a niche product […]

My video timeline began sometime in 1978, with a Panasonic VHS VCR. The NV-8600, the model Panasonic sold on the European market. The same recorder had been introduced a year and a half earlier on the Japanese and American markets, there they use NTSC and that had to be adapted […]