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The latest Philips and Grundig top-hit in the home-video field, the Video-2000 system, has received world-wide atten-tion. One cassette, containing about 1000 feet of ½-inch tape, can be used to record eight hours of colour TV. One cassette costs about £ 20, so that one hour of TV program costs just over £ 2 to record. By way of comparison, the rst colour video recorder used well over £ 20 of tape per hour. The picture quality hasn`t suffered by this drastic cost reduction. All in all, it`s not just another step forward -it`s a giant leap! Obviously, Philips and Grundig hope that the new video cassette will be accepted as an international standard, and that it will prove the same long-term success as its predecessor: the compact audio cassette. The Philips recorder, designed around this new cassette, is a beautiful piece of modern technology.