Grundig SVR 4004
(1978 - 1980)

Another one of those formats that didn't make it in the end: SV ! And SV stands for Super Video. But, however super, VHS and Beta would gather most the market and this Grundig/Philips format, following Philip's original VCR format, vanished at the same time it hit the stores.

The 1979 SVR 4004 EL version allowed to program a second recording, but over the same 10-day period as the original SVR 4004. Plugging Vidicon video cameras was planned on both models, so as to turn the unit into a complete (but definitely not portable!) video system.

The coloured number on the SVC cassettes correspond to the total recording time available. The 5-hour cassette was made available in november '78 and if these represented five times what the german Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht institution recommended - what the heck: available recording time was one of the major marketing points! Something which impaired Sony's Beta at first - and didn't save SVR...