I know that starting in 1993, Sony released the predecessor to the VX-1000 called the VX-3 which was a 3 chip HI-8 camera and ended up being used in many skate videos in the mid 90s. I think before that it was mostly VHS, but I don't know much of the details whether there was a preferred VHS or 8mm cam and whatnot. Always been curious about that as well.