This Cassette-Using Camcorder Is So Terrible, It's Actually Impressive. Enjoy that three minutes of a film time in stunning 120x90 pixels. By Darren Orf Published: Feb 20, 2017 2:52 PM EST.

Despite a price that’s close to $1,000, the camcorder has become the way to shoot home movies. A combination video camera and video cassette recorder in one neat compact package, the camcorder ...

Analog video formats brought videotape to the home user in the early 1980s, using the Betamax VHS cassette formats. But those camcorders were expensive and bulky, in their earliest implementation ...

It is estimated that this year more than a million camera-recorder combinations–commonly known as camcorders–will be sold in the United States alone, a 100 percent increase over the preceding ...

Why DV? All the camcorders we tested use MiniDV tapes, tiny cassettes that store 60 minutes of high-quality digital video in standard-play mode or 90 minutes in long-play mode.

The company is also taking its tiny MicroMV camcorder cassettes off the market at the same time. To be clear, Sony hasn’t been trying to make a go of Betamax and MicroMV all these years; it ...