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VTR redirects here. For other meanings, see VTR (disambiguation).
A video tape recorder (VTR), is a tape recorder that can record video material. The video cassette recorder (VCR), where the videotape is enclosed in a user-friendly videocassette shell, is the most familiar type of VTR known to consumers. Professionals may use other types of video tapes and recorders.

History of video tape recording

Technologies

Video tape recorder technologies include:

Analog reel-to-reel Professional cassette / cartridge based systems

A Betamax video tape by BASF.
Standard definition Digital video tape formats High definition Digital video tape formats Consumer formats See video cassette recorder for a full treatment of domestic formats.

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VTR is a three-letter acronym that could refer to:
  • Vermont Railway (AAR reporting marks VTR)
  • Video tape recorder
  • Honda VTR series
  • VTR Globalcom

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tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sound using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage.
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Video (Latin for "I see", first person singular present, indicative of videre, "to see") is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.
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videocassette recorder (or VCR, more commonly known in the UK and Ireland as the video recorder), is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable videotape cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be
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Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. In most cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would
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Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived
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Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. In most cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would
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Charles Ginsburg (1920-1992) was the leader of a research team at Ampex which developed one of the first practical videotape recorders.

Born in San Francisco, California, Ginsburg earned a bachelor's degree from San José State in 1948.
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AMPEX (NASDAQ:  AMPX ) is an American electronics company founded in 1944. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, Alexander M. Poniatoff, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence.
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VERA (Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus) was an early videotape format developed by the BBC beginning in 1952.

In order to record high frequencies, a tape must move rapidly with respect to the recording or playback head.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Type Broadcast radio and television
Country  United Kingdom
Availability    National
International 
Founder John Reith
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2 inch Quadruplex (also called 2″ Quad, or just quad, for short) was the first practical and commercially successful videotape format. It was developed and released for the broadcast television industry in 1956 by Ampex, an American company based in Redwood
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AMPEX (NASDAQ:  AMPX ) is an American electronics company founded in 1944. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, Alexander M. Poniatoff, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence.
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RCA, formerly an acronym for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark owned by Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson.
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Robert Bosch GmbH

GmbH
Founded 1886
Headquarters Gerlingen, Germany

Key people Robert Bosch, founder
Industry Automotive, Small appliance
Products Automotive parts, Power tools
Revenue $43,7 Billions (2006)
Net income $2,17 Billions (2006)
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The Fernseh AG television company was registered in Berlin on the 3rd July, 1929 by John Logie Baird, Robert Bosch and other partners[1] with an initial capital of 100,000 Reichsmark[2].
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1 inch type A (designated Type A by SMPTE) is an open-reel helical scan videotape format developed by Ampex in 1965, that was one of the first standardized open-reel videotape formats in the 1 inch (25 mm) width (most others of that size at that time were proprietary).
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AMPEX (NASDAQ:  AMPX ) is an American electronics company founded in 1944. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, Alexander M. Poniatoff, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence.
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1 inch type B VTR (designated Type B by SMPTE) is an open-reel videotape format developed by the Bosch Fernseh devision of Bosch in Germany in 1976. It never saw much success compared to the competing 1" Type C format, due to the format requiring an optional, and costly, digital
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Robert Bosch GmbH

GmbH
Founded 1886
Headquarters Gerlingen, Germany

Key people Robert Bosch, founder
Industry Automotive, Small appliance
Products Automotive parts, Power tools
Revenue $43,7 Billions (2006)
Net income $2,17 Billions (2006)
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The Fernseh AG television company was registered in Berlin on the 3rd July, 1929 by John Logie Baird, Robert Bosch and other partners[1] with an initial capital of 100,000 Reichsmark[2].
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics)

Public (Euronext: PHIA , NYSE:  PHG )
Founded 1891 Eindhoven
Headquarters Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Key people Gerard Kleisterlee, CEO
Industry Electronics
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IVC 2 inch Helical scan was a high end analog Helical scan VTR format developed by International Video Corporation (IVC), and introduced in 1975. Previously, IVC had made a number of 1 inch Helical VTRs.
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International Video Corporation, or IVC, was a company that manufactured several models of low to middle-end videotape recorders, or VTRs, for industrial and professional use. Their products were quite popular in the industrial and institutional markets.
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1 inch Type C (designated Type C by SMPTE) is a professional helical scan open-reel videotape format co-developed and introduced by Ampex and Sony in 1976. It became the replacement in the professional video & television broadcast industries for the then incumbent Quadruplex (2
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Sony Corporation
ソニー株式会?

Public (TYO: 6758 ; NYSE:  SNE )
Founded May 7 1946 (adopted current name in 1958) by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita[1]
Headquarters Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan[1]
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AMPEX (NASDAQ:  AMPX ) is an American electronics company founded in 1944. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, Alexander M. Poniatoff, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence.
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NEC Corporation

Corporation TYO: 6701 , NASDAQ:  NIPNY
Founded Tokyo, Japan (1899)
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan

Key people Hajime Sasaki, Chairman of the Board; Akinobu Kanasugi, Vice Chairman of the Board; Kaoru Yano, President
Industry Electronics
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Hitachi may refer to:
  • Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan
  • Hitachi province, former province of Japan
  • Prince Hitachi and Princess Hitachi, members of the Japanese imperial family
  • Hitachi (train), trains in Melbourne, Australia
  • Hitachi Foundation, founded in the U.S.

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U-matic is the name of a videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969, and introduced to the market in September 1971. It was among the first video formats to contain the videotape inside a cassette, as opposed to the various open-reel formats of the time.
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