Pixelvision Videos

Kerry Looks at: Pixelvision Videos. Here is Part 2 at my look at the Pixelvision system - the only system developed that recorded black & white video onto audio cassettes. It was sold thru Fisher-Price beginning in 1987 and was developed by Andrew Bergman.
I bought one of these cameras in 1988 for my young daughter to play with and shoot videos like her Dad. As it turned out, we didn't shoot as many videos as expected and it more or less was a relic by 1990. However, I did save the cassettes & they have been transferred to DVD in 2009. I have edited the footage down to 10 minutes for YouTube. Here is some of the home video footage shot & a rare look at this unique system.

Taped: March 2009

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Kerry
• Decker
• Pixelvision
• video
• 1988
• Orlando
• Florida
• FL
• Fisher-Price
• toy

[hobolooter]

haha I love it. the dirty dancing book just makes it all the more legit.

[KKD1247]

So.....80s!

[MrSeekaywhy]

iv never heard of this before.... i want one now.

[KKD1247]

Please watch my other Pixelvision video about how the camera operates!

[LuTELLO]

I have one of these too! I also have a couple of those Teac r2r style cassettes.

Did you actually record Pixelvision on that, or was it just for show?

[KKD1247]

Yes, that is one of the actual tapes.

[chichuf]

with due respect to you. My opinion is the format seems a horror movie perphaps for the low resolution image and the black and white, and trackings errors .Anyway is a special format. Thanks for posting.

[mellotrongirl]

The PXL2000 Pixelvision is to video like the Optigan 35001 is to audio...!

[yuakfoo]

how do you convert the tape into mov. file?

please help.

[NotATube]

@OldMusicOnVinyl1; "If we were able to connect to the internet through the Commodore Amiga and if YouTube existed in the 80's, this is what it would have looked like!"

Actually, it *was* possible to connect to the Internet via an Amiga latterly. :-)

Even with its limitations, I would have killed for one of these camcorders at the time. I saw it (or something similar) on "Tomorrow's World" in the late 80s, but they never released it commercially in the UK. Shame :-(

[derekkozinski]

how do you go about uploading this to the computer? is it difficult?

[baskee1]

Great!Il loved that guy!R.I.P

[vdochev]

Just out of curiosity, how many frames per second does it record?

[jensalik]

@LuTELLO Teac r2r? That's just a normal Audio-Cassette...

[kargaroc386]

note the wavy-ness of the video. I believe true VCRs use timebase correctors to fix that.

What do those tapes sound like in regular cassette players?

[dcmretro]

ACtually it was at 8:06 someone let rip! LOL!