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What (who) is videotape - definition

MAGNETIC TAPE USED FOR STORING VIDEO AND SOUND
Video tape; Videocassette; Videotapes; Video tapes; Videocassettes; Magnetic tape video storage; Video-tape; Videotape recording; Videotaped; Video cassette tape; Videocassette tape; 📼
  • A fourteen-inch reel of 2-inch quad videotape compared with a modern-day [[MiniDV]] videocassette. Both media store one hour of color video.
  • An assortment of video tapes
  • DV cassettes<br />Left to right: DVCAM-L, DVCPRO-M, DVC/MiniDV
  • A U-matic tape
  • [[Video 8]], [[VHS]] and [[MiniDV]].

videotape         
n. to make a videotape (of)
videotape         
¦ noun magnetic tape for recording and reproducing visual images and sound.
?a video cassette.
¦ verb record on video.
videotape         
also video tape (videotapes, videotaping, videotaped)
1.
Videotape is magnetic tape that is used to record moving pictures and sounds to be shown on television.
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A videotape is the same as a video cassette
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If you videotape a television programme or event, you record it on tape using a video recorder or video camera, so that you can watch it later. (mainly AM)
She videotaped the entire trip.
= video
VERB: V n

Wikipedia

Videotape

Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition. Information stored can be in the form of either an analog or digital signal. Videotape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs) and, more commonly, videocassette recorders (VCRs) and camcorders. Videotapes have also been used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram.

Because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and stationary heads would require extremely high tape speeds, in most cases, a helical-scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions.

Tape is a linear method of storing information and thus imposes delays to access a portion of the tape that is not already against the heads. The early 2000s saw the introduction and rise to prominence of high-quality random-access video recording media such as hard disks and flash memory. Since then, videotape has been increasingly relegated to archival and similar uses.

Examples of use of videotape
1. Democrats were thus deprived of powerful videotape.
2. She could not confirm whether the videotape had been received.
3. A videotape purported to show the deaths of some.
4. Orders for broadcasters to hand over videotape are not unknown.
5. Prosecutors said the elevator attack was captured on videotape.