This standard applies to magnetic video recording and/or playback with 19 mm (3/4 in) tape cassettes on two-head helical-scan cassette recorders suitable for recording and/or playback of monochome as well as colour television programmes. It gives dimensional and other characteristics necessary to permit the interchangeability of cassettes.
DS/EN 60712+A1:1998 history
1998DS/EN 60712+A1:1998 Helical-scan video-tape cassette system using 19 mm (3/4 in) magnetic tape, known as U-format