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    2-inch quadruplex videotape (also called 2" quad video tape or quadraplex) was the first practical and commercially successful analog recording video tape...
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    demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful videotape format known as 2" Quadruplex. April 18 American actress Grace Kelly legally marries...
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  • City Park Quadruplex telegraph, an improvement on the electrical telegraph patented in 1874 by Thomas Edison Two-inch quadruplex videotape, the first...
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    formats include: Quadruplex videotape Ampex 2-inch helical VTR Type A videotape IVC videotape format Type B videotape Type C videotape EIAJ-1 U-matic Video...
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    television industries for the then-incumbent 2-inch-wide (51 mm) quadruplex videotape open-reel format. Additionally, it replaced the unsuccessful type...
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    Kinescope (section Videotape)
    re-broadcasting, and sale of television programs before the introduction of quadruplex videotape, which from 1956 eventually superseded the use of kinescopes for...
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    linear videotape system called Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus (VERA), but this was ultimately dropped in favor of quadruplex videotape. VERA used...
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  • historically. VERA (BBC experimental format ca. 1952) 2" Quadruplex videotape (Ampex 1956) 1" Type A videotape (Ampex) 1/2" EIAJ (1969) U-matic 3/4" (Sony) 1/2"...
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    demonstrated the VR-1000, which was the first of Ampex's line of 2-inch Quadruplex videotape recorders on April 14, 1956, at the National Association of Radio...
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    larger open-reel formats like 1 in (25 mm) Type C videotape and 2 in (51 mm) quadruplex videotape. The format was branded U-matic by Sony, U-Vision by...
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    FeFET memory Analog recording Phonograph cylinder Phonograph record Quadruplex videotape Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Magnetic recording Magnetic...
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    limited for the next eighteen months, as it had only one RCA colour Quadruplex videotape machine and, eventually two Pye plumbicon colour telecines–although...
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    a telecine. This was before 1956 when Ampex introduced the first Quadruplex videotape recorder (VTR) VRX-1000. Live television shows could also be recorded...
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  • quality degradation caused by copying was so great, that a 2-inch Quadruplex videotape was edited by visualizing the recorded track with ferrofluid, cutting...
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    video head in place. Type B videotape video Scanner Head Type B VTR, BCN 20 Tape Desk and video Scanner Quadruplex videotape Ampex AVR-2 Video Head Sony...
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  • Videocassette recorder (category Videotape)
    videocassette recorder follows the history of videotape recording in general. Ampex introduced the quadruplex videotape professional broadcast standard format...
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  • A reel of 2-inch quadruplex videotape...
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    became the world's first commercially successful videotape recorder in 1956. It uses the 2″ quadruplex format, using two-inch (5.1 cm) tape. Because of...
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    real-time onto kinescope film and NTSC broadcast-quality two-inch quadruplex videotape. Recordings of this conversion were not lost and have long been available...
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    key role in the effort that led Ampex to unveil their prototype Quadruplex videotape recorder in April 1956 which soon entered production. After Cambridge...
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    signal took place in 1951. The first commercially released system was Quadruplex videotape produced by Ampex in 1956. Two years later Ampex introduced a system...
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  • Pamela Nash Experience--"TV Technology" (highly detailed articles on quadruplex videotape, film recording, and the BBC's early VERA system) Allan, Keri, "Memories...
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  • in Ampex's DCRsi instrumentation data recorders and the old Ampex quadruplex videotape system. Another early method was arcuate scan. In this method, the...
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    FeFET memory Analog recording Phonograph cylinder Phonograph record Quadruplex videotape Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Magnetic recording Magnetic...
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    FeFET memory Analog recording Phonograph cylinder Phonograph record Quadruplex videotape Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Magnetic recording Magnetic...
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    FeFET memory Analog recording Phonograph cylinder Phonograph record Quadruplex videotape Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Magnetic recording Magnetic...
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  • antenna, a directional antenna Quadraphonic sound, four-channel sound Quadruplex videotape, video tape format Quad Flat Package, a type of package for surface...
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    Mullin's experimental magnetic audiotape (used on his show), 2-inch Quadruplex videotape, real estate, mines, oil wells, cattle ranches and many other investments...
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  • FeFET memory Analog recording Phonograph cylinder Phonograph record Quadruplex videotape Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Magnetic recording Magnetic...
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    FeFET memory Analog recording Phonograph cylinder Phonograph record Quadruplex videotape Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Magnetic recording Magnetic...
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