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About Video's - Overview
In
1975 Sony corporation introduced the first successful consumer
video tape recorder. This was the Betamax system. Approximately
one year later VHS (Video Home System) was introduced by JVC
and was quickly adopted by Matsushita the parent company of
Panasonic. Both of these systems owed their success to being
cassette based.
Video
Formats There are four world standards video
formats which you should be aware of: PAL / VHS, NTSC,
Secam and
PAL M. Each
is unique and incompatible because of differing rates of frame
per second delivery.
Film
Certificate Classification
Before buying a video for yourself or as a gift you should
check that the film
classification certificate is suitable for your age group.
Classification certificates are given to video titles and
video and computer games that are required by law to be classified
according to the Video Recordings Act 1984.
Video Film Genres / categories
Film
Genres are categories, classifications or groups of films
that have similar, familiar or instantly-recognizable patterns,
techniques or conventions that include one or more of the
following: setting, content, themes, plot, motifs, styles,
structures, situations, characters, and stars. The main film
genres/categories available in shops online are:
Action
Adventure
Classic
Hollywood
Family
Mockumentary
Silent
Movies
Adult
Movies
Comedy
Film
Noir
Musicals
Sports
Amateur
Cult
Movies
Horror
Gangster
Fantasy
Animation
Documentary
Martial
Arts
Science
Fiction
War
Movies
Blaxploitation
Drama
Miscellaneous
Shakespearean
Westerns
Certain
directors and actors are known for certain types of films,
for example, Woody Allen and comedy, Alfred Hitchcock for
suspense and thrillers, John Ford with westerns, or Errol
Flynn for classic swashbuckler adventure films.
Many of
the online video retailers will categorise films by genre
in order to make it easy to search for the right film. Most
video retailers also offer a search facility so if you are
looking for a specific film it is easy to find.