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Encyclopedia > Cartrivision

Cartrivision was a videocassette format introduced in 1972, and the first format of its kind available in the USA.[1] It was produced by Cartridge Television, Inc. (CTI), a subsidiary of Avco,[2] who also owned Embassy Pictures at the time. Cartrivision was available in the form of a TV set with a built-in recorder for the format.[2] Cartrivision recorders and sets were manufactured by Avco, a company that CTI partnered with to manufacture and develop the format, as well as Packard Bell, Emerson, Montgomery Ward, and Sears, the latter two marketing Cartrivision sets under their own brand names in their stores, and in Montgomery Ward's case, under the Admiral[citation needed] brand name as well. Avco Corporation is a subsidiary of Textron which operates Textron Systems Corporation and Lycoming. ... Embassy Pictures Corporation (aka Embassy Film Associates) was an independent studio and distributor responsible for such films as The Graduate and The Lion in Winter. ... Avco Corporation is a subsidiary of Textron which operates Textron Systems Corporation and Lycoming. ... Current corporate logo Packard Bell (PB) was an American radio manufacturer, founded in 1933, in Los Angeles, that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics, such as television sets. ... Emerson Radio Corporation, founded in 1948, is one of the United States’ largest volume consumer electronics distributors, with a recognized trademark in continuous use since 1912. ... Montgomery Ward (later known as Wards) was an American department store chain, founded as the worlds first mail order business in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward. ... Sears, Roebuck and Company is an American mid-range chain of international department stores, founded by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck in the late 19th century. ...


The first model of Cartrivision-equipped TV set sold for US $1,350,[3] and was the first videocassette recorder to have pre-recorded tapes of popular movies available for rent. Like Philips' VCR format (introduced at the same time in Europe), the square Cartrivision cassette had the two reels of half-inch tape mounted on top of each other, but it could record up to 114 minutes. It did so using a crude "skip-field" form of video compression that recorded only every third video field and played it back three times. Video Cassette Recording (VCR) was a video format by Philips, the first successful home videocassette recorder system. ... In video, skip field recording is a process in which only one field (one half of a frame) of video is recorded in order to conserve recording media space. ... Video compression refers to making a digital video signal use less data, without noticeably reducing the quality of the picture. ... In video, a field is one of the many still images which comprise a They are similar to frames, but they have half the vertical resolution and are displayed twice as fast. ...


Cassettes of major movies such as The Bridge on the River Kwai and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner were ordered via catalog at a retailer, delivered by parcel mail, and then returned to the retailer after viewing. These rental cassettes were red, and could not be rewound by a home Cartrivision recorder. Rather, they were rewound by a special machine upon their return to the retailer.[4] Other cassettes on sports, travel, art, and how-to topics were available for purchase. These cassettes were black, and could be rewound on a Cartrivision recorder. An optional monochrome camera manufactured for Cartrivision by Eumig could be bought to make home videos. The Bridge on the River Kwai is an Academy Award-winning 1957 World War II war film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï by French writer Pierre Boulle. ... Guess Whos Coming to Dinner is a 1967 Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, and Katharine Houghton. ... A drawing of a self-service store Retailing consists of the sale of goods/merchandise for personal or household consumption either from a fixed location such as a department store or kiosk, or away from a fixed location and related subordinated services (Definition of the WTO (last page). ... A how-to is an informal, often short, description of how to accomplish some specific task. ... A photograph of a sign in grayscale The same photograph in black and white Monochrome comes from the two Greek words mono (μωνο, meaning one), and chroma (χρωμα, meaning surface or the color of the skin). A monochromatic object has a single color. ...


Avco Corp. introduced Cartrivision at the Consumer Electronics Show in New York in June 1970. It was first sold in June 1972, mainly through Sears, Macy's, and Montgomery Ward department stores in the United States. Manufacture ended thirteen months later in July 1973[1] after poor sales. Later, it was found that Cartivision tapes that had been stored in a warehouse had disintegrated due to humidity.[2] The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a trade show held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association. ... Macys is a chain of moderate to upscale American department stores with its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City, which has been billed as the worlds largest store since completion of the Seventh Avenue addition in 1924. ... The interior of a typical Macys department store. ...


After the demise of Cartrivision in 1973, many Cartrivision-equipped TV sets, separate recording mechanisms, tapes, and other parts and accessories were liquidated by surplus retailers, mainly in California, and many electronic hobbyists bought quite a few of the Cartrivision systems. Some made their own homebrew modifications with the hardware, such as a stand-alone Cartrivision player in its own chassis with a RF modulator to hook it up to any TV set, much like today's VCRs. An RF modulator (for radio frequency modulator) is a device that takes a baseband input signal and outputs a radio frequency-modulated signal. ...


Cartrivision was demonstrated on the television show What's My Line? in 1972 with the declaration that no home will be complete without one. Whats My Line? was a weekly panel game show originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. ...


References and footnotes

  1. ^ a b 1972: Cartrivision — The First VCR with Prerecorded Tapes, CED Magic, cedmagic.com. Article retrieved 2006-12-22.
  2. ^ a b c "Cartrivision — The First ALL American Home VCR!", LabGuy's World (labguysworld.com). Article last updated 2005-01-09, retrieved 2006-12-22.
  3. ^ Television on a Disk, Time, Sept. 18, 1972. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  4. ^ Cartrivision Cassette, mrbetamax.com. Article retrieved 2006-12-22.

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