VHS-C Compact Video Cassette Alle

This page is for all BASF labeled VHS-C type Video Cassette tapes for all TV standards.

Please do not modify this page.

Load only pictures with all data in the picture legend!

Bitte nur Bilder hochladen, alle Informationen/Daten in die Bildlegende.

History (Taken from Wikipedia):

"VHS-C:

Another variant is VHS-Compact (VHS-C), originally developed for portable VCRs in 1982, but ultimately finding success in palm-sized camcorders. The longest tape available for NTSC holds 60 minutes in SP mode and 180 minutes in EP mode.

Since VHS-C tapes are based on the same magnetic tape as full-size tapes, they can be played back in standard VHS players using a mechanical adapter, without the need of any kind of signal conversion.

The magnetic tape on VHS-C cassettes is wound on one main spool and uses a gear wheel to advance the tape. The adapter does not require a battery to function and is solely a mechanical adapter. It has an internal hub to engage with the VCR mechanism in the location of a normal full-size tape hub, driving the gearing on the VHS-C cassette. Also, when a VHS-C cassette is inserted into the adapter, a small swing-arm pulls the tape out of the miniature cassette to span the standard tape path distance between the guide rollers of a full-size tape.

This allows the tape from the miniature cassette to use the same loading mechanism as that from the standard cassette."

Here you find 86 models, 84 with images and 41 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
All listed radios etc. from BASF, Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik; Ludwigshafen