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Originally Posted by firenzeprima
I was sure, but it was not the JVC the first who developed the system VHS?
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Sony invented all the basic details of what became the VHS and Beta VCR formats, the M-load and U-load tape threading, azimuth recording without guard bands, and other details. After Sony released the Betamax, JVC released the first VHS VCR with two-hour recording time. RCA wanted to sell a VCR that could record a USA football game on one tape, so they got Matsushita (parent company/owner of JVC) to add the slower, poorer-quality four-hour recording mode (LP) to the VHS format, and they built the VBT-200 for RCA. Matsushita also sold essentially the same model as the Panasonic PV-1000 in the USA, and there were several other clones of this machine and the next two years' successor versions, including the PV-1200 with the follow-on, poorer-yet six-hour recording mode (SLP/EP).