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Quadruplex videotape. 2-inch quadruplex videotape (also called 2″ quad video tape or quadraplex) was the first practical and commercially successful analog recording video tape format. [1] It was developed and released for the broadcast television industry in 1956 by Ampex, an American company based in Redwood City, California. [2] The first ...
Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor. [1][2] The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for A lexander M. P oniatoff Ex cellence. [3] Ampex operates as Ampex Data Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Delta Information ...
Video tape recorder. 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.
Type C videotape. 1-inch Type C Helical Scan or SMPTE C is a professional reel-to-reel analog recording helical scan videotape format co-developed and introduced by Ampex and Sony in 1976. It became the replacement in the professional video and broadcast television industries for the then-incumbent 2-inch quadruplex videotape (2-inch Quad for ...
A 14-inch reel of 2-inch quad videotape compared with a modern-day MiniDV videocassette. Both media store one hour of color video. The first commercial professional broadcast quality videotape machines capable of replacing kinescopes were the two-inch quadruplex videotape (Quad) machines introduced by Ampex on April 14, 1956, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Chicago.
Usage. Video production. 1-inch Type A Helical Scan or SMPTE A is a reel-to-reel helical scan analog recording videotape format developed by Ampex in 1965, that was one of the first standardized reel-to-reel magnetic tape formats in the 1–inch (25 mm) width; most others of that size at that time were proprietary. It was capable of 350 lines.
D-2 (video) D-2 is a professional digital videocassette format created by Ampex and introduced in 1988 [1] at the NAB Show as a composite video alternative to the component video D-1 format. It garnered Ampex a technical Emmy in 1989. [1] Like D-1, D-2 stores uncompressed digital video on a tape cassette; however, it stores a composite video ...
Ampex 2 inch helical VTR. From 1963 to 1970, Ampex manufactured several models of VTR 2-inch helical VTRs, capable of recording and playing back analog black and white video. Recording employed non-segmented helical scanning, with one wrap of the tape around the video head drum being a little more than 180 degrees, using two video heads.