videocassette

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Recent Examples of videocassette The profits for the film division rose 8 percent from the previous year’s quarter, to $79.1 million from $73.3 million, due to the fact that the studio released four profitable videocassettes in the quarter, compared to one in the same quarter the year before. Jeanie Kasindorf, Vulture, 10 July 2024 But an intrepid producer on the documentary dug through countless plastic containers and eventually found the videocassette of those nuptials. Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024 Both scandals involved high-school athletes from privileged families who liked to beat up strangers, and who filmed their fights—on videocassettes, in the case of the Devil Dogs. Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024 As Oliver explained, foreign videocassettes were introduced in Ghana in the 1980s, which led to locals buying TV monitors and VCRs as part of an effort to set up makeshift screening locations. Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for videocassette
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Noun
  • His assignment was to develop software for RCA’s SelectaVision videodisc project.
    New York Times, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
Noun
  • The movie has been released on DVD and Blu-ray.
    Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • In 1997, barely one year after the video disc was launched, all of the Motion Picture Association of America member studios joined the DVD Forum, collectively adopted the new format and started to phase out films released on videotape.
    Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Fortune, 25 May 2026

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“Videocassette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/videocassette. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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