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A PA-302 General Precision Laboratories (GPL) kinescope (c.1950–1955). Its movie film camera, bolted to the top of the cabinet, used Kodak optics.. Kinescope / ˈ k ɪ n ɪ s k oʊ p /, shortened to kine / ˈ k ɪ n iː /, also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor.
Broadcast live by the BBC using John Logie Baird's 30-line mechanical television system, part of this performance was recorded onto a 7" aluminum disc using a primitive home recording process called Silvatone. This footage, which runs to just under four minutes, is the oldest surviving recording of broadcast television.
The cue track was used either as a second audio track, or for recording cue tones or time code for linear video editing. [5] The quadruplex format employs segmented recording; each transversely recorded video track on a 2-inch quad videotape holds one-sixteenth (NTSC) or one-twentieth (PAL) [6] of a field of interlaced video. (For NTSC systems ...
AMPEX quadruplex VR-1000A, the first commercially released video tape recorder in the late 1950s; quadruplex open-reel tape is 2 inches wide The first portable VTR, the suitcase-sized 1967 AMPEX quadruplex VR-3000 1976 Hitachi portable VTR, for Sony 1" type C; the source and take-up reels are stacked for compactness.
Ampex introduced a color videotape recorder in 1958 in a cross-licensing agreement with RCA, whose engineers had developed it from an Ampex black-and-white recorder. [16] NBC's special, An Evening With Fred Astaire (1958), is the oldest surviving television network color videotape, and has been restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV sources and can play back the recording after rewinding. The use of a VCR to record a television program to play back at a more convenient time is commonly referred to as time shifting.
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
An audio recording of the daily sign off as well as a video recording of a 10-second station ID from the 1970s and a copy of the channel's rebranded City 2 Television from 1982 are known to exist. Additionally, a station ID from 1986 have resurfaced, though it only refers to the station as “Channel 2,” shortly before ABS-CBN reacquired the ...