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videotape, n.|ˈvɪdɪəʊteɪp|
Also as two words or hyphenated.
[f. video- + tape n.1]
1. a. Magnetic tape on which can be recorded moving visual images such as television programmes (as well as sound).
1953Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Dec. 1/4 With further development of video tape techniques, numerous possibilities will open up. Small portable television cameras are already in wide use in industry, in stores, banks and schools. 1965Listener 10 June 857/2 A course of television mathematics lectures is now being recorded. Where these are transmitted from videotape the lecturer will be in the room with the students. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon viii. 117 We'll record the climb on video-tape the day before it actually goes out on the air. 1980B. W. Aldiss Life in West i. 15 Standing by the bookstall was a white board announcing that the television series had been captured on videotape and would be shown in its entirety over the four evenings of the conference. 1985Listener 24 Jan. 37/1 Videotape soon became a vehicle for prerecorded films and music programmes.
b. A length of videotape, or the recording it carries.
1960Guardian 7 May 1 Video-tapes and film versions of the ceremony were being flown all over the world. 1967New Scientist 2 Feb. 285/3 Americans have been at great pains to discover whether students learn as much from televised lectures and video-tapes as they do from ‘live’ lectures. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 135 They wanted a video-tape to be made of every word said in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. 1977Language LIII. 883 Videotapes of the lectures have been broadcast nationally. 1984What Video? Aug. 14/1 (Advt.), You can easily view a negative or positive film image on a TV screen and also record it on a video tape.
2. attrib.
1958Times 24 July 5/2 The BBC's VERA which tape-records complete television shows, picture and sound combined, and the AMPEX and R.C.A. videotape machines which do the same job for the independent television contractors, will greatly facilitate the provision of such Press shows. 1963J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1964) viii. 90 Sometimes she was in New York, holding a can of toilet-bowl cleanser in front of a videotape camera. 1976B. Jackson Flameout iii. 40 A man hefting a videotape camera on his shoulder brushed past, focusing his camera for another long shot. 1977Times of Swaziland 11 Feb. 5 (Advt.), Kosie Smith v's Victor Galindez—light heavy weight title fight—in our Video-Tape Shows starting 8.30 every night. 1978Broadcast 13 Nov. 23/1 The Circle is presently involved in forming..a video tape library. 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 May 48/2 The [tennis] club has 24 courts,..videotape play-back, ball machines and individual stroke analysis.
b. videotape recorder, a tape recorder that will record and replay videotape recordings; videotape recording, a recording on videotape; also, the making of such a recording.
1954Proc IRE XLII. 731/2 Video tape recorders were demonstrated. Ibid. 756/2 Experimental video tape recording systems were demonstrated. 1959Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 13/2 Television has entered an era of video tape recording that will profoundly influence future development. 1959Listener 19 Mar. 499/2 Some executives think that video-tape recordings will help them to beat the film menace. 1963Guardian 11 Sept. 7/6 Increasingly the television camera and videotape recorder, an unwieldy picture development of the ordinary tape-recorder, are being used where once the cine camera stood alone. 1971New Scientist 16 Sept. 633/1 Videotape recording (VTR) offers them a freedom which is impossible with film. 1978Tucson Mag. Dec. 28/1 Since videotape recorders hit the scene, television addicts don't have to choose between two conflicting programs. 1980Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 889/1 Before and during stimulation the patients were examined clinically; videotape recordings made of their movements; [etc.]. 1984Listener 19 July 34/2 There is..an enormous park of video-tape-recorders in Britain.
Hence ˈvideotape v. trans., to record on videotape; ˈvideotaped ppl. a., ˈvideotaping vbl. n.
1964Times 7 Feb. (Advt. Suppl.) p. iv/3 Even an expert cannot tell the difference between live and video⁓taped programmes. 1970R. Parkes Death-Mask xv. 186 An agonising interview had been video-taped at the television studios. 1977J. D. Douglas in Douglas & Johnson Existential Sociol. i. 10 This form of linguistic ethnomethodology imposed the further constraint that only those accounts that could be tape-recorded or video⁓taped could be studied. 1977Times 29 June 7/6 The FBI had set up an antique shop..fitted with wiretaps and hidden videotaping equipment. 1979Time 30 July 12 After the lesson Carter ran through the speech and watched a videotaped replay, then practiced again, until he and Rafshoon were satisfied. 1980B. W. Aldiss Life in West i. 28, I see..that some ingenious person..has videotaped my television series. |