How to Use videocassette in a Sentence

videocassette

noun
  • That movie is now available on videocassette.
  • He has a large collection of videocassettes.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 videocassette player was the summit of consumer technology.
    — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The Writers Guild of America goes on strike regarding royalties from videocassette sales.
    — CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Before long, Japanese companies came to dominate the camcorder and videocassette player market.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Jan. 2019
  • 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
  • Their religious morality police confiscated or smashed television sets, videocassette recorders, cameras, videos and satellite dishes.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The last actors’ strike was in 1980 , back when the union sought profit - sharing from studios over videocassettes and premium television like HBO.
    — Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • 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
  • There’s a serious fandom growing around videocassettes, one that includes such directors as Jane Schoenbrun and Alex Ross Perry.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Since the 1950s, each new entertainment medium has led to a residuals fight — videocassettes, basic cable, premium cable, the internet, and now streaming.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • As Oliver explained, foreign videocassettes were introduced in Ghana in the 1980s, which led to locals buying TV monitors and VCRs as part of an effort to set up makeshift screening locations.
    — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Examples of creative destruction include e-commerce disrupting retail, streaming services replacing videocassette and DVD rentals and internet advertising undermining newspaper advertising.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025

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