29-09-2025, 09:09 PM
(29-09-2025, 08:58 AM)Mike Watterson Wrote: I saw the maddest Akai colour reel to reel in the BBC in the 1970s (just before I moved to the place mentioned above). Someone suggested it for news instead of 16mm film. It used 1/4″ tape and was "toy quality", no good for news. Amazingly later someone did make a toy video recorder that used regular audio cassettes. It was staggeringly low resolution mono video played back in a window that made the Akai 1/4" look good.
Sounds like the Fisher-Price PXL2000, which I remember being demonstrated on Tomorrow's World, only one track was used for the picture, as the other recorded sound.
I'm not sure if it was sold in the UK.
