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Video Tape Recorder Unveiled 50 Years Ago

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-betamax-thanks-you dept.

Argyle writes "50 years ago Ampex unveiled the first video tape recorder. TV Technology has an excellent story about the surprise launch of the video tape recorder, impacting almost every aspect of business, entertainment, and family life as we know it today. The enabler of the entire modern entertainment industry, the video tape recorder was was designed by only six men, Charles Ginsburg, Charles Anderson, Ray Dolby, Shelby Henderson, Alex Maxey, and Fred Pfost."

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  1. Oh boy, first Pfost! by DurendalMac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.

  2. Re:mass media impact by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Life imitates The Onion.

  3. Re:mass media impact by judabuddhist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yup, I stopped watching tv a few years ago, and now I'm utterly addicted to pointless internet activity. In fact, I'm indulging the addiction right now.

  4. Re:Cool article: disruptive technology by ozmanjusri · · Score: 2, Funny
    This is cool because it reminds us what can happen when a *real* innovation is created

    I wonder how many people in the audience were saying "This'll ruin the movie industry. We'd better kill it off before that happens".

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    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  5. Re:mass media impact by iroll · · Score: 2, Funny

    then went back to my Clancy novel

    Isn't that what they call "out of the frying pan, into the fryer?"

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    Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth. - FDR
  6. The date was, April 14, 1956 by nblender · · Score: 3, Funny

    The time was ..... 12:00 .... 12:00 .... 12:00 ..... 12:00 .... 12:00 .... 12:00 (Apologies to those of you who are 30yo and have no idea what I'm talking about).

  7. Damn the RIAA for not stopping this then! by jocknerd · · Score: 3, Funny

    They unleashed a monster. Could have nipped it in the bud back in the 50's.

  8. Pornography Liberation Day! by LibertineR · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why no national holiday? The VCR did more to take Pornography from the seedy theater into your homes. In fact, were it not for the VCR, many people would still be thinking of motor oil whenever the subject of 'lube' came up.