SONY Betamovie

Serial Number: Cam0294

Type:
BetaMovie

Manufacturer:
Sony

Country of Origin:
Japan

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Status: Display

Description:
Betamovie is the brand name for a range of consumer grade camcorders developed by Sony for the Betamax format. By camcorder is understood a single unit comprising a video camera and a video recorder.

Betamovie records analog video on a standard Betamax cassette.

A range of models was manufactured for the PAL and NTSC formats. The first model, BMC-100P (PAL) and BMC-110 (NTSC) was released in 1983 making it the first commercial consumer grade camcorder.[2] While only standard beta units were available in PAL, several SuperBeta models were produced for the NTSC format.

Due to constructional limitations, the Betamovie has no playback function.[3] It is only capable of recording. This limitation, along with the decline of the Betamax format in the late 1980s, caused Sony to abandon the Betamovie line just a few years after its initial release in favor of its newly developed Video8 format.

This collection was obtained by Al Faraj Gallery on the 22nd of October 2023.