A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio tape ...

Videotape still stores the intellectual assets of several generations of television production. Commercial videotape recording began in the late 1950s. Though audio recordings on acetate strips had ...

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 ...

The history of VCRs. The technologies behind the creation of VCRs. The VCR’s eventual decline. In today’s world, we rely primarily on streaming services to watch movies and TV shows at HD resolutions.

In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

While many people remember recording with VHS, Sony’s Betamax video recorder, which debuted before VHS, has less of an imprint on the public’s pop culture memory. Betamax had a higher resolution than ...

Figure 1. The standardized tape recording and playback EQ curves. The next aspect of analog tape recording is an interesting one, for it can also apply to audio transmission on long circuits ...