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I wonder what Kodak was thinking when it decided to switch from Super 8 to 8-mm video? Did Kodak expect to keep slapping its name onto Matsushita products for the next 20 years? Camcorders turned out to be more complicated products than film cameras, and were improved continuously. The Kodavision became obsolete just one year after its debut, and was sold for half the price. In a couple of years Kodak became irrelevant in the video world, while winding down the Super 8 production. Kodak has not made new Super 8 cameras in 40 years, and it has never produced camcorders. Had Kodak at least produced video tape on its own facilities besides loading it into cassettes?
It was a cute idea of switching from 8-mm film to 8-mm video, but Kodak was not fully committed to video.
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