The Videotape
As a cinema in the home and a "time shifter" of television programmes, as a record of memories and information, as the basis of TV shows revealing members of the public falling over or actors forgetting their lines, in the last decade the videotape has caught on more swiftly and completely than any comparable technological innovation this century.
We buy 44 million blank tapes every year. And yet, as a historical document, there is a danger that the image on a videotape will eventually become unreadable.
Producer Gail Taylor
Series producer Mark Harrison