Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Magnetization
MII

Date:

c. 1990

Material:

Metal particle on polyester substrate, plastic shell and mechanism

Dimensions:

Tape: ½ in. (12.7 mm) wide

Company:

Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.)

Location:

Osaka, Japan

Helical scan, analog. Developed as a competitor to Betacam SP. Only moderately successful and only for a short time, partially due to poor marketing and partly due to reliability issues: "I was never happier to see a format replaced when we switched to [Sony] D2."