The consumer formats built to bring recorded film and television into the home outside a broadcast schedule. Belongs here: the DVD and the LaserDisc and comparable named home-viewing formats and their players. Does not belong here: the videocassette recorder and videotape, which are grouped under broadcast technology alongside the cable and recording infrastructure they share a lineage with, or cinema-only projection technology.
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The Betamax and VHS home videocassette formats were introduced, respectively, in 1975 and 1976.
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