In 1969, the E.I.A.J. (Electronic Industries Association of Japan) brought several different manufactures together to agree upon a single, compatible videotape format. Up until this point, many different recording schemes existed that could only be played back on either the same machine that made the original recording to begin with, or on another machine of the same manufacturer. In other words, a Sony recording could not be played on a Panasonic deck. Thus, this agreement allowed several manufacturers to build videotape recorders to a single specification. These videotape recorders used both fields of the TV frame for better resolution, a vast improvement over the Sony CV skip field system. And so began the wide scale capability of videotape exchange amongst non-broadcast users, such as individuals, schools, and businesses.

We have a range of 1/2" machines but most transfers are made with the Sony AV-3650