From time to time we experience difficulty in communicating with folks who call us. Video is a bewildering playground, made confusing by the many acronyms and abbreviations used by manufacturers, and by the lack of precision in usage by people who own a video camera. What follows is not intended as a complete glossary of video terms, which would take an entire book to do well, but rather a list of some of the terminology that will help you communicate your needs to us, and help us explain the duplication, editing and video taping process to you.
Lets begin by correcting a common mistake.
VHS-C , tape the same width as VHS, but in a smaller cassette. Cannot be viewed in your VCR, even though it will fit. Very few consumer cameras record in S-VHS, so you'll probably know for certain whether or not your camera records in this format. 8mm and Hi-8 . The cassette is very thin, and looks a lot like the cassette used in an audio tape recorder.