Philips Demo stereo sound for Video 2000. 1984

In 1984 Philips added stereo sound for Video 2000 recorders. Here you can see and hear a demo recording for stores. Sound is now less in quality after 38 years. Stereo sound was recorded linearly, so noise in the sound. In 1984, stereo sound for video was a luxury. Video 2000 was a system where the cassettes could be recorded and played back on two sides. In the YouTube video the original recording from 1984 and played in a Philips VR2840. Video 2000 (also known as V2000, with the tape standard Video Compact Cassette, or VCC) is a consumer videocassette system and analogue recording standard developed by Philips and Grundig.Video 2000 was presented at the International Radio Exhibition in Berlin in 1979 and succeeded Philips's earlier Video Cassette Recording (VCR) format and its derivatives (VCR-LP and Grundig's SVR). Although some early models and advertising featured a mirror-image "VCR" badge based on the older systems' logo, Video 2000 was an entirely new (and incompatible) format, which incorporated many technical innovations. Despite this, the format was not a major success and was eventually discontinued, having lost out to the rival VHS system in the videotape format war. The tape is totally enclosed when not in use. Unlike competing formats that have spaces in the cassette for the tape-loading mechanism to be inserted, thus exposing the delicate magnetic-tape surface, VCCs have a retractable sheath that covers such space. The sheath is retracted as a tape is inserted into the machine, and only then can the tape cover be raised to fully expose the tape.

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