BM – THUNDERBALL

American ‘Thunderball’ Betamax Video Tape, Running Time 129 Minutes Release Date 1983 Catalogue Number 4611

Thunderball Is A 1965 British Spy Film And The Fourth In The James Bond Series Produced By Eon Productions, Starring Sean Connery As The Fictional MI6 Agent James Bond. It Is An Adaptation Of The Novel Of The Same Name By Ian Fleming, Which In Turn Was Based On An Original Screenplay By Jack Whittingham. It Was Directed By Terence Young, With Its Screenplay By Richard Maibaum And John Hopkins. The Movie Would Have Been The First Of The Bond Series If Not For Legal Disputes Over Copyright Issues

Main Cast James Bond (Sean Connery), Domino Derval (Claudine Auger), Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), Fiona Vuple (Luciana Paluzzi), Paula Kaplan (Martin Beswick), Felix Leiter (Rik Van Nutter), Patricia (Molly Peters), M (Bernard Lee), Q (Desmond Llewelyn), Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)…

Betamax (Also Called Beta, As In Its Logo) Is A Consumer-Level Analog-Recording And Cassette Format Of Magnetic Tape For Video. It Was Developed By Sony And Was Released In Japan On May 10, 1975. The First Betamax Device Introduced In The United States Was The LV-1901 Console, Which Included A 19-inch (48 cm) Color Monitor, And Appeared In Stores In Early November 1975. The Cassettes Contain 0.50-Inch-Wide (12.7 mm) Videotape In A Design Similar To That Of The Earlier, Professional 0.75-Inch-Wide (19 mm), U-Matic Format. Betamax Is Obsolete, Having Lost The Videotape Format War To VHS. Despite This, Betamax Recorders Would Not Be Discontinued Until 2002, While New Betamax Cassettes Were Available Until March 2016, When Sony Stopped Making And Selling Them

Like The Rival Videotape Format VHS (Introduced In Japan By JVC In October 1976 And In The United States By RCA In August 1977), Betamax Has No Guard Band And Uses Azimuth Recording To Reduce Crosstalk. According To Sony’s History Webpages, The Name Had A Double Meaning: Beta Is The Japanese Word Used To Describe The Way In Which Signals Are Recorded On The Tape; And The Shape Of The Lowercase Greek Letter Beta (β) Resembles The Course Of The Tape Through The Transport. The Suffix-Max, From The Word ‘Maximum’, Was Added To Suggest Greatness. In 1977, Sony Issued The First Long-Play Betamax VCR, The SL-8200. This VCR Had Two Recording Speeds: Normal, And The Newer Half Speed. This Provided Two Hours’ Recording On The L-500 Beta Videocassette. The SL-8200 Was To Compete Against The VHS VCRs, Which Allowed Up To 4, And Later 6 And 8, Hours Of Recording On One Cassette
CBS/FOX, USA 1983

Various American James Bond Beta Video Tapes Overview

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