Type A videotape
Magnetic Tape | |
Encoding | NTSC, PAL |
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Write mechanism | magnetic single-head[1] |
Usage | Video production |
1-inch type A (designated Type A by
Usage
Type A was developed as mainly an industrial and institutional format, where it saw the most success. It was not widely used for
The Type A format received broad use by the
The format was also used by the
Technical details
Early VTRs were black-and-white (B/W) only, later VTRs supported color television, with a heterodyne playback. Still later units had time base correction playback, like the VPR-1 that could be used at television station and post-production houses.
The VPR-1 had several problems, it did not record the vertical blanking interval (as the format in general was not capable of), which is why it was not compliant to FCC broadcast standards. The video quality was not as good as other broadcast VTRs. Thus Sony and Ampex agreed to make a SMPTE approved type C format VTR (which was based on Type A). Hitachi also later made a C format VTR.
Some Ampex Type A models
- VP-4900 (1965) B/W Player only, no record option.
- VR-5000 (1965) B/W Record-player, very popular, many made.
- VR-5100 (1965) B/W 3 MHz with horizontal resolution of 300 lines, noise ratio of 42 dB.
- VR-5200 VR-5100 (1965) B/W with TV Tuner.
- VPR-5200 VR-5200 with professional connectors
- VR-5800 Low and high band. Very popular, many made.
- VPR-5800 VR-5800 with professional connectors
- XVR-5800 Medical certified 1 Type A VTR.
- VR-5803 PAL VR-5800 TVR
- VR-6000 Low band VTR, With stop motion mode added. Wood case.
- VR-6003 PAL VR-6000
- VR-6050 Low band VTR, very basic, low cost.
- VR-6275 (1966) Wood cabinet with a two TV Tuners (one watch one to record), load speakers.
- VR-6300 (1966) VR-6275 without the TV Tuner.
- VR-7000 Microphone input add, playback RF modulator, low and high band and other improvements.
- VR-7100 (1967)With roll around cart, self-contained, with TV tuner, small monitor and B&W camera.
- VR-7300 (1968) Color option with external color stabilizer. Hetrodyne color processor.
- VR-7003 PAL VR-7300.
- VL-7404 A time lapse VTR. Up to 38 hours with 9-3/4" reel of 3000' 1" tape. $5,900
- VR-7450
- VR-7500 Rec/play B&W and color. 4.2 MHz video bandwidth. Very popular, many made.
- XVR-7500 higher record band, better color pictures. Professional connectors
- VR-7503 PAL VR-7500
- VR-7800 Editing added, Color option. 1st with removable electronic cards for servicing.$9,500 in 1968.
- VPR-7800 VR-7800 Professional.
- VR-7803 PAL VR-7800
- VP-4500C A VR-7800 VTR, but a Player only, no record option, heterodyne color processor.
- VR-7900 Is a VPR-7800 with an extra modulation standard added is very high, same quality as quad high band. 1975
- VPR-7900A (TBC option, the TBC-790, 1975)
- VR-7903 PAL VR-7900
- VPR-7950A Console model of the VR7900, with monitoring and a TBC (TBC-790 analog, TBC-800 digital).
- VPR-1 (1976) Studio VTR, Digital TBC with SlowMo and still frame. Some later VPR-1s were converted to Type C format by Ampex. Quickly replaced with C format, VPR-2 in 1976.
- VPR-10 (1976) Portable VPR1, discontinued before delivery, replaced with VPR-20, C format in 1977.
See also
- Video tape recorder (VTR)
- Type B videotape
- Type C videotape
- IVC videotape format
- Ampex 2 inch helical VTR
References
Notes
- ^ "Video History". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2012-09-14.
- ^ "Video History". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2012-09-14.
- ^ Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum Audiovisual Materials III Videotape Recordings
- ^ Richard Milhous Nixon Presidential Library and Museum WHCA Videotape Collection
External links
- labguysworld Link to a 1" Type A VTR, the Ampex VR-7300
- labguysworld VPR-1 The last Type A VTR
- VidiPax Video Formats Guide
- labguysworld Other one inch VTRs
- labguysworld Ampex VR- VTRs
- labguysworld Ampex VR-6000
- DC Video operator of VR-7800
- Ampex page in the Experimental Television Center
- labguysworld.com Ampex VR-7100 Ops manual
- lionlamb Ampex Cat.
- The History of Television, 1942 to 2000, By Albert Abramson and Christopher H. Sterling
- Rewind Museum.com Ampex
- fundinguniverse.com Ampex Corporation History
- AMIA Tech Review, Type A and The Everly Brothers Show by Ralph Sargent with Al Sturm