SelectaVision explained

SelectaVision
Producttype:	Home video player
Currentowner:	RCA
Discontinued:	1986

SelectaVision was a trademark name used on four classes of device by the Radio Corporation of America:

• The Holotape, a prototype video medium^[1]
• Magnetic tape
• VHS videocassette recorders, and
• Capacitance Electronic Disc videodisc players and the discs themselves, introduced in 1981.

Capacitance Electronic Disc's competitors, Philips/Magnavox and Pioneer, instead manufactured optical discs, read with lasers.On April 4, 1984, RCA, having sold only 550,000 players, ended sales, losing $580 million.^[2] The losses resulted in General Electric's acquisition of RCA in 1986, and the "SelectaVision" brand was abandoned.^[2]

See also

• Video High Density (JVC, 1970)
• Electronic Video Recording (CBS, 1967)
• Phonovision (Baird, 1928)
• Vitascan (DuMont, 1949)

External links

• SelectaVision page on Total Rewind - the Virtual Museum of Vintage VCRs

Notes and References

1. https://www.cedmagic.com/history/holotape.html RCA SelectaVision HoloTape Video Player in 1969
2. March 22, 1981: RCA SelectaVision Spins (Briefly) into Stores. Wired. Hernandez. Daniela.