If you notice, look back on the history of the video camera: Nobuyoshi Koji's IT Operation (page 1/5)

　JVC Kenwood released a financial statement explanation material for the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.According to the fact, the production of consumer video cameras ended in October 2021, and the resources will be shifted to another growth business.

　I think many people thought they were still doing it.Certainly, many people think that the business has ended because there are no new video cameras, including other companies, but the business is not ending because they have not released new products.As long as the old products are manufactured and shipped, it is not the end of the business for companies.

　Therefore, the end of the production of JVC Kenwood will be shipped to the end if there is stock, but it will be accepted as the business end as soon as it is gone.

　The consumer video camera was an overwhelming difference in Japan, leading the world.Most of the domestic home appliance manufacturers have entered a video camera.Sony, Panasonic, Canon, and JVC Kenwood are hard, but Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, and Sanyo Electric also have products in the past.

　Video cameras have grown from analog to digital, from tape to disk, disk to memory, and more than still cameras.This time, I would like to summarize the flow of video camera development and decline.

Analog era

　If you go back to the consumer video camera, you will hit U Matic.

　Umatic was standardized by Sony, Matsushita Electric Industries (then), and Japan Victor (then), and the camera and decks were separate.The product was released in 1971, but it was later introduced in the broadcasting industry, causing a revolution called ENG (Electric News Gathering) in the press.Now it's a natural video coverage, but before that, the news was a 16mm film coverage in the news.

　After that, in the consumer field, as a tape deck, "Beta Max VS.The VHS War has occurred, but in the video camera, "8mm video vs..It was VHS-C War.When Sony hit a movie camera using a smaller beta cassette than VHS, Victor put a VHS-C, which made VHS smaller and compatible with an adapter.Beta vs.The VHS War also happened in the Movie Camera, but the beta camps such as Sony were competing with even smaller 8mm videos.

　In the broadcasting industry, "Beta vs..Many people do not know that there was "VHS War".Around 1984, a confrontation between Sony's "Beta Kam" and "M" jointly developed by Matsushita Electric and NHK Technical Research Institute as an ENG camera system.The tape size was just beta and VHS, but in about a year it was settled with Beta Max."M" has evolved into the newly improved format "M II", and has been introduced in large quantities to NHK.

　8mm video vs.VHS-C was settled because the 1989 Sony "CCD-TR55" became a "passport size".Despite the passport size, the passport at the time is larger than now.In addition, the vertical and horizontal size is the same size as the passport, but the thickness was considerable.

　The 8mm and later HI-8 were not popular as stationary decks.In the current sense, you may think that it would be inconvenient if you could not play the tape on the deck connected to the TV, but at that time it was the mainstream to connect the camera itself to the TV, so the convenience of taking out the media and regenerating it with another device.The world has not caught up yet.

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