Video8 was launched in 1984, into a market dominated by the VHS-C and Betamax formats. History An amateur grade Video8 Camcorder from the early 1990s Video8 Much smaller than the competition's VHS and Betamax video cameras, Video8 became very popular in the consumer camcorder market. In 1985, Sony of Japan introduced the Handycam, one of the first Video8 cameras with commercial success. In January 1984, Eastman Kodak announced the new technology in the U.S.

As a result, a consortium of 127 companies endorsed 8-mm video format in April 1984. In 1982, five companies – Sony, Matsushita (now Panasonic), JVC, Hitachi, and Philips – created a preliminary draft of the unified format and invited members of the Electronic Industries Association of Japan, the Magnetic Tape Industry Association, the Japan Camera Industry Association and other related associations to participate. Their user base consisted mainly of amateur camcorder users, although they also saw important use in the professional television production field.

These are the original Video8 ( analog recording) format and its improved successor Hi8 ( analog video and analog audio but with provision for digital audio), as well as a more recent digital recording format known as Digital8. The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats.

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