History of the VCR in USA

[TheFamilyMan]

Fun and interesting read on the history of video recorders in the USA. May not be complete, but it's interesting. Note that the articles are listed in reverse order, so start from the bottom and go up. Enjoy.

http://www.totalmedia.com/trivia.asp

[lordsmurf]

Whoever wrote that site should be barred from ever writing articles again. His non-stop stupid commentary deludes everything, and he blatantly copy/pasted most of that from other sites.

Not to mention you never write a chronology in reverse order, bottom to top.

[Lord Melbury]

Not to mention you never write a chronology in reverse order, bottom to top.

No, of course not. Writing style? What the f#%& is that?

You need to think outside the four equal-sided geometric shape, m'lord.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Lighten up lordsmurf,I thought it was very informative and I liked the side comments.

[edu]

Lighten up lordsmurf,I thought it was very informative and I liked the side comments.

I agree 110 %.

[Mudbug]

Very interesting - I enjoyed reading it.

[davideck]

GREAT Read! Thanks TheFamilyMan.

Now I'm all nostalgic...

[edDV]

Lordsmurf has a point sorta. The writer dumbed the story down.
http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_tape.htm

The writer clearly never worked for Ampex* or we would have heard the story of Les Paul and Mary Ford's role in developing multi-track audio recording. Not to mention the solid body electric guitar.
http://reevesaudio.com/visitlesandmary.html



All bow in respect --- Ampex VR-1000 VTR design group 1956
Left to right: Charles Anderson, Shelby Henderson, Alex Maxey,
Ray Dolby, Fred Pfost and Charles Ginsburg

Yes, young Ray Dolby who went on to ... well you know.

The machine consisted of the transport plus 2 racks of electronics.



* I never worked for Ampex but worked with many that did. Any trip to NYC included paying homage to Les Paul at the Iridium Club.

[TheFamilyMan]

These "articles" originally appeared as individual trailers in total media's spam ads. I don't think they were meant to be complete nor exhaustive. It was just something to get you to read their ad, which I did for every installment. Thanks for the links edDV, great pictures!

[edDV]

There are some other great history shorts on that site.

http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History.htm