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Sony TC-50 cassette tape recorder on display at the Houston Space Center NASA furnished every astronaut with a Sony TC-50 from Apollo 7 in 1968 onward. [ 1 ] Procured to facilitate the recording of personal mission logs, negating the need for additional paper work, the TC-50 was also used by astronauts to play their favorite mixtapes in the ...
NT cassette compared to various memory cards. The system was an R-DAT based system which stored memos using helical scan on special microcassettes, which were 30 mm × 21.5 mm × 5 mm with a tape width of 2.5 mm, with a recording capacity of up to 120 minutes similar to Digital Audio Tape.
D-1 or 4:2:2 D-1 (1986) was a major feat in real time, broadcast quality digital video recording. It stores uncompressed digitized component video, encoded at Y'CbCr 4:2:2 using the CCIR 601 raster format with 8 bits, [1] [2] along with PCM audio tracks as well as timecode on a 3/4 inch (19 mm) videocassette tape (though not to be confused with the ubiquitous 3/4-inch U-Matic/U-Matic SP cassette).
A reel-to-reel tape recorder from Akai, c. 1978. An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage.
[2] [3] Through the 1980s and 1990s, Sony created many versions and variations in the cassette tape Walkman line [4] such as the DD series and WM series. Below is an incomplete list of cassette tape based Walkman models. Sony Walkman TPS-L2, from 1979. Sony Walkman WM-F15, released 1984. Sony Walkman WM-28, early 1980s Sony Walkman WM-F77 ...
[2] The first Sony camcorder capable of recording to standard 8mm videotape was the Sony CCD-V8, with 6x zoom but only manual focus, released in 1985 with an MSRP of approximately $1,175, [8] ($3,329 in 2023) and a mass of 1.97 kg (4 lb 5½ oz). [9] [10] The same year, Sony released the CCD-V8AF which added autofocus. [9]
The first consumer tape recorder to employ a tape reel permanently housed in a small removable cartridge was the RCA tape cartridge, which appeared in 1958 as a predecessor to the cassette format. At that time, reel-to-reel recorders and players were commonly used by enthusiasts but required large individual reels and tapes which had to be ...
DASH is capable of recording two channels of audio on a quarter-inch tape, and 24 or 48 tracks on 1 ⁄ 2-inch-wide (13 mm) tape [1] [2] [3] on open reels of up to 14 inches. The data is recorded on the tape linearly, [ 4 ] with a stationary recording head , [ 5 ] as opposed to the DAT format, where data is recorded helically with a rotating ...