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U-matic

videocassette format
CreativeWork broadcast_television_system Q278080

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
broadcast television system
Inception
1969[3]
Owned by
Sony Group[2]
Described by source
Wikidata item[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Type E Helical Scan en U-matic ar يو-ماتيك ja Uマチック zh U-Matic錄影帶系統
🔖 Identifiers · 9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
U-matic.jpg ↗
Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID
u-matic
File Format Wiki page ID
U-matic_3/4"
Freebase ID
/m/04q5t7
ISOCAT ID
1807
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
mvidformat/umatic
RDA value vocabularies ID
videoFormat/1014
Swiss Performing Arts Vocabularies ID
fvskn
TV Tropes ID
Platform/UMatic

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 1
broadcast television system
Owned by 1
Sony Group
Owns / has subsidiaries 1
Sony Group
← EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
Morino
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Summary

U-matic is a broadcast television system[1].

Related Entities

Morino Sony Group

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). U-matic. Retrieved October 30, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/u-matic
MLA “U-matic.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 30 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/u-matic.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_u-matic_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{U-matic}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/u-matic}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-30}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18d ago · Frank Geerlings · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'commons', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'ga', 'hu', 'it', 'j
    Sitelink count → 21
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ Described by source: Wikidata item, Cleanup: remove redundant reference URL (P854) ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  2. 22d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ISOCAT ID → 1807
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'commons', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'ga', 'hu', 'it', 'j
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ ISOCAT ID: 1807, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327315|U-matic (#7327315)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → broadcast television system
    Owned by → —
    TV Tropes ID → Platform/UMatic
    Instance of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ TV Tropes ID: Platform/UMatic"
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