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

• The Holotape, a prototype video medium

• 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. The losses resulted in General Electric's acquisition of RCA in 1986, and the "SelectaVision" brand was abandoned.

See also

• Video High Density (JVC, 1970)

• Electronic Video Recording (CBS, 1967)

• Phonovision (Baird, 1928)

• Vitascan (DuMont, 1949)

References

External links

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