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videotape

[vid-ee-oh-teyp] / ˈvɪd i oʊˌteɪp /


NOUN
videocassette
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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

"They were supported by hundreds of hours of videotape, evidence, eyewitness testimony, they're indisputable."

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2025

I knew Ma wouldn’t want them to videotape no bugs marching across our ceiling.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore




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