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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 ...
In 1948, the first tape-delayed U.S. radio program was broadcast by using an Ampex Model 200 tape recorder. In May 1949 Model 300 introduced improvements in audio head, tape drive and tape path. In 1950, Model 400 introduced lower cost professional quality audio recorder, soon to be replaced by the Model 400A, which was the logical precursor of ...
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.
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 ...
BCE gave the world's first demonstration of a videotape recording in Los Angeles on November 11, 1951. Developed by John T. Mullin and Wayne R. Johnson since 1950, the device gave what were described as "blurred and indistinct" images, using a modified Ampex 200 tape recorder and standard quarter-inch (0.6 cm) audio tape moving at 360 inches (9 ...
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.