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    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...
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    A video tape recorder (VTR) is a tape recorder designed to record and playback video and audio material from magnetic tape. The early VTRs were open-reel...
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    Mullin to develop a commercial production model of the tape recorder. Using Mullin's tape recorders, and with Mullin as his chief engineer, Crosby became...
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    digital audio tape format was developed by Soundstream, using one inch (25.4 mm) wide reel-to-reel tape loaded on an instrumentation recorder manufactured...
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    Ampex (redirect from Ampex tape recorder)
    reel-to-reel tape recorders developed from the German wartime Magnetophon system at the behest of Bing Crosby. Ampex quickly became a leader in audio tape technology...
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  • became the world's first commercially successful videotape recorder using two-inch (5.1 cm) wide tape. Due to its high price of US$50,000 (equivalent to $578...
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    A tape transport is the collection of parts of a magnetic tape player or recorder that move the tape and play or record it. Transport parts include the...
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    design a high-quality tape cartridge for home use, using thinner and narrower tape than that used in reel-to-reel tape recorders. A team at its Vienna...
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  • reel-to-reel audio tape recording and video tape recorders, and provide non-linear editing capabilities unavailable using tape recorders. Audio HDR systems...
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    Audiotape (redirect from Audio tape)
    tape recorders including machines for reel-to-reel audio tape recording on open reels or they can be enclosed in cases that only have one reel (tape cartridge)...
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    Videotape (redirect from Video tape)
    digital signal. Videotape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs) and, more commonly, videocassette recorders (VCRs) and camcorders. Videotapes have also...
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    commercial tape recorder—the Ampex 200 model, launched in 1948—American musician-inventor Les Paul had invented the first multitrack tape recorder, ushering...
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  • number of world firsts: commercialising the 24-track multi-track recorder, the tape Auto Locator and in-line mixing console. During the late 1950s Grover...
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    VHS (redirect from Vhs tape)
    Magnetic tape video recording was adopted by the television industry in the 1950s in the form of the first commercialized video tape recorders (VTRs),...
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    tape loops are loops of magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound when played on a tape recorder. Originating...
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    pioneering reel-to-reel tape recorder developed by engineers of the German electronics company AEG in the 1930s, based on the magnetic tape invention by Fritz...
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    and 60 and wearing a brown suit and was carrying a briefcase with a tape recorder inside. According to this witness, both the Lyon sisters and other children...
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    then rises from the recorder as the tape is automatically destroyed. Some early episodes depict Briggs applying a chemical to the tape and blowing air onto...
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    video tape recorder for storage. November 4–7, 1977: 3M demonstrates a prototype 2-channel 50.4 kHz 16-bit digital recorder running on 1-inch tape at 45 ips...
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    sound-activated taping system was installed in the Oval Office, including in Nixon's Wilson desk, using Sony TC-800B open-reel tape recorders to capture audio...
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  • three-track tape recorder; a machine with ten playback heads to replay tape loops in echo (the morphophone); a keyboard-controlled machine to play tape loops...
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    After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to the United States by John T. Mullin, Crosby invested $50...
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    observed Janet banging a broom handle on the ceiling and hiding his tape recorder. According to Playfair, one of Janet's voices, whom she called Bill...
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  • Takemitsu to demonstrate their tape recorders with compositions and performances of electronic tape music. The first electronic tape pieces by the group were...
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    A tape head is a type of transducer used in tape recorders to convert electrical signals to magnetic fluctuations and vice versa.They can also be used...
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    from the Japanese kamukōdā (カムコーダー) using the English words camera and tape recorder, coined by Sony for export purposes in March 1982. Video cameras originally...
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    a reel-to-reel audio tape recorder. Later, Cousino developed a plastic case that could be mounted on some existing tape recorders. This cartridge was marketed...
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    equipment. The first Studer-designed tape recorders were branded Dynavox. After the first production series of Dynavox recorders, a new marketing company was...
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    Studer. It initially became known in the 1950s for its professional tape recorders. In the 1990s the company moved into the manufacture of mixing consoles...
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    guitar. His experiments with tapes and recorders in the early 1950s led him to order the first custom-built eight-track recorder from Ampex, and his pioneering...
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