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HD-DVD and Blu-ray weren't the only HD video disc formats competing for dominance in the '00s. HD VMD which was basically a DVD containing more layers unsuccessfully tried to compete with the two. The company who produced it dissolved in 2008 and only a few titles were ever released on the format.
There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.
You mean the LP-2000 ? That came out in 1970.
Philips owns Victor, which developed the VHS from LP-2000 in the mid-1970s.
I don't think anything you just said is correct.
I cannot find anything about a tape format called "LP-2000" that came out in 1970.
Phillips released the VCR format in 1972, and a successor Video 2000 in 1979. Most people on earth have not heard of these, because they weren't nearly as successful as Sony's Betamax format which lost the format war to...
VHS. Made by JVC, Japan Victor Corporation, at the time owned by Matsushita...and/or Panasonic? Not Phillips.
The first VHS deck was released by JVC under the Victor brand name in 1976, three years before Video 2000. If VHS is a successor to anything, it's U-Matic.