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Old 30th Nov 2020, 9:45 pm   #1
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Default Video recording on compact cassettes.

I was watching Tv last night re two american guys who collect and sell on older tech stuff from the eighties etc
What fascinated me was a toy that recorded video on standard audio compact cassette !!!
I have never heard of such a device the picture was in black ans white even grainey but I could not believe it worked have any of heard of this
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Default Re: Video recording on compact cassettes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000
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Old 1st Dec 2020, 10:14 am   #3
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Default Re: Video recording on compact cassettes.

Our late contributor Karen Orton (sadly missed) was an expert at recording video on Compact Cassette, along with any other unsuitable medium you could think of.
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Default Re: Video recording on compact cassettes.

There was a US patent filed by Messrs Heidt and Wickstead dated April 23rd 1991, entitled Apparatus For Storing Video Signals On Audio Cassette.

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/5010419.pdf

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Default Re: Video recording on compact cassettes.

Hello Trev,

Take a look at this old posting. It might shed some light?
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...ad.php?t=96771

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As far as I can recall, it took a while to use Compact Cassettes at any speed different from 1 7/8 ths of an inch (oh how I wish they started with 32 inches per second). Once the patents ran out...
 
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Default Re: Video recording on compact cassettes.

I recall reading about SSTV- Slow Scan Television. Don't know much about it, but recall reading the images could be recorded on standard Compact Cassette.
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Old 3rd Dec 2020, 9:52 am   #8
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Default Re: Video recording on compact cassettes.

Yes. That would be PXL-2000 toy camcorder by Fisher Price. The 8-bit Guy did a review on this a while ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCXJ5twf5tM

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