CV-2000 was one of the world's first home video tape recorders, introduced by Sony in August, 1965. VTR redirects here For other meanings see VTR (disambiguation. is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with [1] The 'CV' in the model name stood for 'Consumer Video', and was Sony's domestic video format throughout the 1960s. Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 [2]
The CV-2000 was developed by Sony engineer Nobutoshi Kihara. Nobutoshi Kihara (木原 信敏 Kihara Nobutoshi, born 1926 was an Engineer at Sony, best known for his work on the original Walkman cassette-tape On its release, each machine cost US$695. It used half-inch wide videotape in an open-reel format, meaning the tape had to be manually threaded around the video head drum. Helical scan is a method of recording high bandwidth signals onto Magnetic tape. The CV-2000 was one tenth the weight and price of other video recording products of its era. Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images [3] It recorded television programs in black and white using the skip field process, which produced a maximum 200 lines resolution. Black-and-white is a number of Monochrome forms in Visual arts. In Video, skip field recording is a process in which only one field (one half of a frame) of video is recorded in order to conserve recording media space The tape moved at a speed of 7. 5 inches per second (19cm/sec). [4] Each reel of tape cost US$40, and could hold one hour of video. Although CV-2000 was aimed at the home market, it was mainly used in business and educational institutions. [1]
Ten models were developed in the CV series: CV-2000, TCV-2010, TCV-2020, CV-2100, TCV-2110, TCV-2120, CV-2200, DV-2400, CV-2600 and CV-5100. [2] Sony also sold an optional 'Video Camera Ensemble', known as the VCK-2000. This add-on kit contained a separate video camera, a microphone, and a tripod. [4]
The CV video recorders fell into disuse with the arrival of color videocassette formats in the early 1970s. PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS IS A GENERAL ARTICLE ABOUT VCRs/VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. [1]