The video floppy format was later used by Minolta, Panasonic, and Canon for their still video cameras introduced in the mid-to-late 1980s, such as the Canon Xapshot from 1988 ( also known as the Canon Ion in Europe and the Canon Q-PIC in Japan ).
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Besides still video cameras, stand-alone recorders & players were also available for the VF format, that could record from or output a composite video signal, to or from an external source ( such as a video camera, VCR, video capture card, or computer graphics output ).
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The NBC technology enables those browsing the net at modem speeds of only 14, 400 bits a second to play the audio portion of a television news feed or other material and receive still video images that are updated every 5 to 20 seconds to stay roughly abreast of the sound.
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Video floppies were first developed by Sony and introduced under the " Mavipak " name in 1981 for their Mavica still video camera ( not to be confused with their later line of Mavica digital cameras introduced in the mid-1990s, which stored JPEG images to standard 3.5 " floppy disks readable by computers instead ).
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One of these, officially referred to as a Video Floppy ( or VF for short ) can be used to store video information for still video cameras such as the original Sony Mavica ( not to be confused with later Digital Mavica models ) and the Ion and Xapshot cameras from interlaced composite video format in either the North American NTSC or European PAL standard.
