Re: Blast from the past

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <gjacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Jones writes

>This rang a muffled bell back in the cobwebs of my mind. Didn't some other
>company do something like this a few years back? I seem to remember some
>(relatively) cheap kid's video camera that produced a badly degraded B&W image
>that had to be patched into a VCR to be recorded. (This back in the days
when an
>"inexpensive" camcorder was somewhere up near $1000.) Any other old-timers
>remember anything like this?
>
>

You might be thinking of the Fisher Price camcorder. The difference with that
one was that it actually had a tape you can record to and then play back
on your television without needing the VCR. The tape it used BTW was regular
audio cassettes!

Gabriel


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