A photo from 1956 shows a home television tape player developed by RCA

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New York Times and RCA

The concept for home videotape back in 1956. I doubt that the machine pictured could have housed the necessary tube electronics to operate a videotape playback or recording. The tape in the picture looks to be wound on ordinary reel to reel audio tape reels. Though the TV set looks like a B&W set, I don't think RCA had rectangular color CRTs in 1956. Being in B&W would make for a simpler videotape system, but I don't think there was tape back then that could hold a viewable video image. Oh, there were wider tapes that could. The picture looks like a prediction of the near future product RCA was hoping to make. A marketing mock-up.