spamtrap1888 wrote:

The video cassette recording system Cartrivision was introduced at the
Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1970. Sold at first exclusively by
Sears retail stores, the system was noteworthy for being the first to
rent prerecorded movies -- by mail, making it a predecessor of
Netflix.


The Cartrivision system was developed by AVCO, at what later became
the Cincinnati, Electronics plant on Glendale-Milford road. The
prototypes and test fixtures were still on site a few years later, when
I did QA on the PRC-77 for CE. There were two types of cartridges. One
you could record on, and rewind. The other was play once only, then the
cartridge had to be returned to where you rented it so it could be
rewound on a separate machine before it could be rented out again.


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