 In order to be more appealing to the typical consumer wanting a practical device for recording home movies, a more compact and preferably one-piece device was needed.The first such device, the Betamovie BMC-100/110, was released in 1983 by Sony.Although the term was not in common use at that time, such a device would later become known as a camcorder, a single unit comprising a video camera and a video recorder.