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What is the most obscure fact you know? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

You mean the LP-2000 ? That came out in 1970.

Philips owns Victor, which developed the VHS from LP-2000 in the mid-1970s.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago

    I don't think anything you just said is correct.

    I cannot find anything about a tape format called "LP-2000" that came out in 1970.

    Phillips released the VCR format in 1972, and a successor Video 2000 in 1979. Most people on earth have not heard of these, because they weren't nearly as successful as Sony's Betamax format which lost the format war to...

    VHS. Made by JVC, Japan Victor Corporation, at the time owned by Matsushita...and/or Panasonic? Not Phillips.

    The first VHS deck was released by JVC under the Victor brand name in 1976, three years before Video 2000. If VHS is a successor to anything, it's U-Matic.

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