Fisher-Price video recorder PXL-2000

1987–1988

The PXL-2000 was a video recorder made by the Fisher-Price toy company. The innovation was its use of a standard audiocassette instead of the more expensive videocassettes. Auteurs could record about 4 minutes of black-and-white low-resolution video on each side of the cassette, but the high-speed tape rolling mechanism was so noisy that it ruined the sound quality. It took 6 AA batteries to power the camera for roughly 7 minutes.

Additional info:

Wikipedia

Indiewire.com - how the PXL-2000 has lived on despite failing as a consumer product

A commercial from 1988:

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