The terminal is little bigger than a video cassette but has to be plugged into an electric outlet.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Originally, Mina Smiles was issued on video cassette (VHS pal) in 1993.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

The organ was searched and a film retrieved, which proved to be blank, but meanwhile Podesta was spotted trying to hide a video cassette under a pew cushion.

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DVDs, the format replacing the video cassette.

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In 1975, Sony unveiled the first home video-cassette recorder and created a new market.

ECONOMIST: Sony

At least my "cougar" friend and her juvenile boyfriend can both recall growing up listening to cassette tapes, playing video games on the original PlayStation, and watching Bill Clinton deny that he had "sexual relations with that woman" -- even if one of them wasn't quite sure what that meant at the ripe old age of 6.

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Phonographs were going to kill sheet music, the rise of radio threatened to undermine sales of phonograph discs, video recorders were going to wipe out the film industry, and cassette recorders spelt doom for the music business.

ECONOMIST: The same old song