Videokassetten

[EZ647]

KK Company was a Slovak company, it also had the BASKO brand. I don't know if this is also the case.
But it was a company filling blank audio and video cassettes, making prerecorded and blank cassettes.
I think they were buying C-0s and filling them often with Basf tape.
There were other brands in Slovakia, for example InterSonic Film Publishing, later LTV Studio had their own line of blank VHS tapes in classic opening sleeves under the STUDIO brand.
The cassettes shells were probably Made in China, or from wherever they could be bought cheaper.
There were three lines:
SQTV budget with unknown tape.
SGBC with Basf EQ tape
SHGBC with Basf PHG Hifi tape.
They were cheaper in price by about 10-15% compared to Basf. They won over customers with attractive VHS sleeves used in pre-recorded VHS films, with brightly colored booklets for each length.
There were two vintages one circa 1995/1996 and then after 2000 or so came the redesign of the packaging as well as the change of the source tapes' labeling from Basf to Emtec.
I have a little bit of that on the web:
https://ez647.sk/video/studio_sqtv.html
https://ez647.sk/video/studio_sgbc.html
https://ez647.sk/video/studio_shgbc.html

Going back to the KK Company, there are pictures of a Basko cassette from this company on the Slovak forum, chromdioxide, dual layer according to the description, but supposedly there is no typical smell and the tape has quite high recording levels
so we don't really know what's there, the company was in business during the 90s.
https://vintagehifi.sk/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3687

Regards EZ