MicroMV was a digital videotape format for camcorders, introduced in 2001 by Sony.
It is the smallest videotape format, being 70% smaller than MiniDV. Despite this, a tape could hold up to 60 minutes of video.
It used MPEG-2 compression, like that used by DVDs.
MicroMV was not a success, and Sony was the only supplier of MicroMV cameras. By 2006, Sony no longer offered any MicroMV camcorder models, switching instead to DVD and hard disk recording. In late 2015, Sony announced that it would cease production of MicroMV tapes in 2016.
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- Sony Japan | News | Beta video cassette and micro MV cassette tape shipment end of announcement [Japanese]
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