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videotape
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videotape

Magnetic tape used to record visual images and sound, or the recording itself. There are two types of videotape recorders, the transverse (or quad) and the helical. The transverse unit uses four heads rotating on an axis perpendicular to the direction in which the tape is fed. The transverse format achieves 1,500-in.-per-minute head-to-tape speed, necessary for high picture quality. The helical unit uses tape traveling around a drum in the form of a helix. VCRs use a helical format, known as VHS (Video Home System), consisting of two helical bands and tape 1/2 in. (1 cm) wide.


A magnetic tape used for recording full-animation video images. The most widely used videotape format is the 1/2" VHS cassette. VHS made earlier videotape formats obsolete for entertainment and training. See VHS.


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Videotape recording allows the instructor to both interact with the performance as it plays out and conduct meaningful assessment after the conclusion of the class.
VALLEY VILLAGE - Police said Monday that they have recovered a surveillance videotape recording of an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer involved in a weekend gunbattle with masked gunmen who tried to rob a bar.
Inside the large dark center room of this three-room installation, a strange kind of newsreel was projected: a fifty-three-minute videotape recording the ambush of the Russian army's 245th Motorized Infantry Regiment by a small band of Arab mercenaries (led by a Jordanian Al Qaeda operative) in Chechnya on April 16, 1996.
 
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