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

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

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2025

Here, we’re in a world of phone booths, pagers and bulky computers no one knows how to work, of Walkmans and videotape, which both simplifies and complicates the action.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2024

Authentic videotape from that time and the shallow, kitschy music take you back to the time of the “Me Generation” and every low-brow cliché of the 70s through the Reagan years.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2024

I tried to gently tell Abbey the truth about her videotape, but she was one step ahead of me—as usual.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen