Videokassetten

[Kirunavaara]

Thanks for these infos! I like these "Studio" VHS cassettes that came in nice packaging, with good tape and at lower prices. Such was unusual in Germany - at least we could sometimes figure out who really made the cheaper OEM and in-house brands.

The Basko audio cassette is interesting. The "Technical profile" printed onto its inlay gives the same figures as a 1989 BASF Chrome Super II:
http://www.ez647.sk/cc/basfii/b/cs98z.JPG

This means, the description as a double layer pure chrome was probably correct for the first batches of these cassettes. Later on, they used other tape and "forgot" to change the information on the j-card. It is even possible that they still bought tape from BASF, but instead of Chrome Super, they received some pancakes of tape for the TP II, which during the first years was Maxell... the pictures of the tape, as well as the description of the recording, suggest something like that.

And the shelll is cearly related to this Datatex cassette from Italy:
http://www.ez647.sk/cc/datatex_horizon.html

An even closer match for the shell (including window scale and direction arrow) would be late Iplas tapes. I'm not sure where these shells really came from - Italy, somewhere in former Yugoslavia, or elsewhere.

Best regards
Martin