The earliest attempts at marketing home video recorders were around 1963 believe it or not. Clunky, cost prohibitive and not particularly good from what I read, they were nonetheless a necessary step on the way to DVD's and Blu-Ray. Here's a 1967 model marketed in late 1966 that you can read all about here:
The Sony camera and recorder unit made an appearance in an episode of THE FUGITIVE this year.
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