How to Use videocassette in a Sentence

videocassette

noun

• That movie is now available on videocassette.
• He has a large collection of videocassettes.
• The era of 16 and 35 mm projection gave way to the videocassette era, followed by the DVD era.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
• The shah and his wife hunted in vain for a missing videocassette to finish a movie.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
• Just as records on vinyl have made a comeback, so have movies on videocassette been rediscovered in a digital age.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 28 Apr. 2017
• Somewhere in your home — or the home of a close relative — are likely stacks of videocassettes of milestone family events tucked away in the basement or a closet.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Police said at the time that there was no sign of a break-in, although a bag, a purse, a videocassette recorder and a television were reported missing and apparently stolen.
  — Cathy Locke, sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Walt Disney bought videocassette rights for $1 million.
  — Robert D. McFadden, The Seattle Times, 27 July 2017
• An instructional 1990s videocassette from Mr. Torres plays on a screen and through headphones, detailing steps and hip twists.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 15 June 2017
• An actors’ strike, over residuals from the burgeoning videocassette market, came and went.
  — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2021
• Facets bought its first 140 videocassettes from a distributor.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
• The Writers Guild of America goes on strike regarding royalties from videocassette sales.
  — CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
• With much fanfare and press attention then, The Manchurian Candidate resurfaced in American theaters in a rerelease in 1988, along with mass distribution of the movie on videocassette.
  — Gordon Arnold, Slate Magazine, 26 May 2017
• After the videocassette book went to press, occasionally I would be allowed to write nightly TV listings for local newspapers that couldn’t afford their own critics.
  — Mark Harris, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
• Gauthier took the safe up into the mountains and found expensive watches, jewelry and guns — plus a mysterious Hi8 videocassette.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• The diversity of material recorded on videocassette and, in many cases, never digitized is part of what makes the format so appealing to longtime VHS collectors.
  — Jenn Swann, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
• In solving the user problem of how to watch movies at home, for example, streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+ have succeeded and are thriving, while their predecessors—the videocassette rental stores—have almost entirely disappeared.
  — Valla Vakili, Quartz at Work, 15 Dec. 2020
• The video officials at a stadium used two nine-inch television monitors and two videocassette recorders capable of immediate replay.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
• Their religious morality police confiscated or smashed television sets, videocassette recorders, cameras, videos and satellite dishes.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024