The system, which included the VCR and a hand held video camera, was very small and lightweight for its time.

The CVC format used a cassette similar in size to a 8-mm videocassette and was loaded with magnetic tape 6.5 mm wide.

An even worse attribute of the cassettes was the low quality of the tape stock which was prone to dropouts (appearing as lines of white snow) during video playback.

A drawback of the CVC player resulted in the mechanism's loading ring frequently failing to complete its intended travel as the decks aged.

Nippon TV (NTV) in 1981 also had a camcorder developed for them called the "CV-One" that also used CVC videocassettes, but using component video recording instead, much like Betacam, Lineplex, and M. The CV-One was followed by a newer model, developed by Hitachi under contract to NTV in 1982, called the SR-1.