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Originally Posted by jr_tech
"Were those intended for home use???"
The Sony "portapack" was popular with sports coaches, golf swing experts, schools, industry and perhaps a few home movies were made with these machines.
jr
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I've gotten hold of from a guy in Queensland Australia, a couple of early 70s home movies recorded on an early 70s Sony EIAJ standard reel-reel portapack VTR. The recordings date from 1971 to about 1973 and were done in New Zealand when he lived there, the tapes transferred successfully and the pictures were mostly in great quality. A good mix of footage of family videos and segments of New Zealand TV show footage recorded via the vidicon camera pointed to the TV screen, one of the recordings was some footage of the Bee Gees In Concert circa 1971 which I've uploaded to YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO2AxOF20mw . So yep some people did own portapacks back then for domestic use of making home movies.