When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Videotape still stores the intellectual assets of several generations of television production.
Videotapes built the Blockbuster empire. The network of rental stores has now dwindled to 303 holdout locations—which, the company announced yesterday, will close by the beginning of next year. But ...
AMPEX engineers called their machine the VR-1000; it used a spinning head and ran 2" tape, and would be the first in AMPEX's line of Quadruplex recorders. The team was led by Charles Ginsburg, and on ...
CBS goes on air with the first videotape delayed broadcast, Douglas Edwards and The News, using the Ampex Mark IV. Ampex introduced the videotape recorder on April 14, 1956, at the National ...
In 1956, the first video tape recorders hit the market. It was almost another 10 years before they became part of "home entertainment." Bet you've still got a few VHS tapes lying around… Video has ...
It's been 57 years since the first video tape recorder was sold. Ever the history buff, today Google is reminding us of the event via a small addition to YouTube. A video casette icon now appears in ...
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