![]() The whole cased cassette is covered by a printed cellophane wrapping, which has an easy open “cut”. This one also had the safety lock anti-slack system, which early cassettes did not have. ![]() The earlier cassettes also featured break-off write-protection tabs similar to the full-size VHS cassettes, with later cassettes featuring slide-switches (similar to floppy disks) instead. I still remember the JVC XR 30-minute cassettes that my Dad used to film my childhood, although I have no idea where they are now. We know this because the 45-minute (PAL) length was not available in the early days of VHS-C. ![]() This particular cassette is a later-model cassette. This is a Panasonic SP EC-45 VHS-C cassette, Made in Japan. Thanks to visiting a thrift store, and finding a few VHS-C cassettes which I promptly purchased, I’ve been able to compile this unboxing and teardown of a VHS-C cassette, along with a look at it inside a VHS-C to VHS adapter. VHS-C cassettes contained the same sort of tape inside, and recorded video in the same way as regular VHS, allowing for mechanical adapters to allow VHS-C cassettes to be played in full size VHS decks – an advantage that the other formats at the time did not have. This was a small sized VHS cassette intended for use with camcorders and initially came in lengths of 30 minutes, extending to 45 minutes by the time VHS-C was overtaken by (primarily) Video8/Digital8 and miniDV. ![]() While the regular VHS tape was a book-sized cartridge holding up to about 5 hours of tape, it had a smaller relative known as VHS-C, where the C stood for compact. ![]()
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