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video cassette

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noun

  1. a cassette containing video tape

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He recounted his days growing up when he, his mother and sister would go to the cinema or pick from their extensive home library of video cassette tapes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2025

Source photographs and materials: Photo collage images from the Siraj family; surveillance photos from the New York Police Department; Herald Square drawing and government video cassette from the archives of Naftali Beane Rutter, Waterbound Pictures.

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2021

It was embroiled in a format war with rival video cassette VHS, produced by Japanese firm JVC.

From The Guardian Nov. 10, 2015

Many preferred to stay at home, able to rent films on video cassette just a few months after their cinema release.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2015

There were no video cassette recorders, no CDs, no computers.

From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements

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