Business screen magazine (1946)

newsreel REPORTS ON CURRENT EVENTS AND TRENDS RCA's SelectaVision MagTape System Announced for 1973 R( A li.is .inruHinv.i.-(.l pl.ins io produce and niarkcl a new magnetic tape color video player by late I^T.V At the same lime. Bell & Howell and Magnavox also plan to market products hased on the new RCA system. Bell iV Howell will manufacture for R( A and others the precision tape transport component ol the system, while Magna\ox will integrate its low-cost color camera into the system and make it available to other manufacturers. The SelectaVision MagTape system permits playback of recorded tapes, recording off-lhe-air. and recording and plasback of "live" scenes with an associated TV camera. A one-hour cartridge, costing about S30 loaded with blank tape, is about the size of an average hard cover book. The record-player, is scheduled to sell for approximately S700. Licenses will be offered to other companies who wish to manufacture the product themselves. Features which the RC A SelectaVision system will ofter include; incariridge scanning that simplifies the tape transport mechanism, a modular electronics package with fewer parts and components than other systems announced to date, and stereo sound capability. While cominilling the SelecaVision MagTape system to production. RCA is continuing dc\elopment of its playback-only Hololape system in anticipation of demand in specialized markets for that type of video player. Modern's CATV Project In N.J. Gives Voice to Communities A new dimension lor cable programming is being explored in an experimeni launched April 3 by Video Programming, a division of Modern Talking Picture Service. Inc.. and the Micro-Cable Communications Corp. cable system in Wayne. N.J. With films supplied by Modern. Micro-Cable is carrying two and a half hours or more of programming Monday through Friday over a 10 SUDE8. There's good reason why Britey Manhattan Is the leading slide 'producer in the East. It's our specialty. fiat means we know every „y^f/>' vV" ^ "'ck in the book to turn out ''^^O^ <2v ^.^^bBButiful, sparkling color slides. ^P% v\*^^tt's standard operating procedure ' ^ X>' .^ Io color correct and Inspect every slide we make, i Beauty Is Important. But a tjeautllul job de9red late is hell So we're geared tor speed and quality. Berkey Manhattan oders the fastest service, often, the very same day. And all of this costs no more. Perhaps even less Itian you are now payirtg. So talk to Berkey Manhattan — the slide people Find out how and why we turn out the finest quality slides— on time. Berkey Manhattan FILMSTRIP & SLIDE LABORATORIES Berkey i week period. Modern and Mi (able have met with educators fi the Wayne area to introduce the perimcnt and explore how ihe\ m have a voice in the scheduling of f so that the programming could correlated to the subjects being ered in the classrooms. Further ings are planned with representa of other conmiunity agencies, sue religious leaders, to give the I community a voice in determi what is shown. In addition to programming Ir motion pictures from educational companies in Ihe areas of scie literature, mathematics, art and si studies, a number of sports and tr films and social documentaries be scheduled that were produced \arious business and government ganizations. According to Fontaine Kinchi Jr.. vice president of Modern, primary purpose of the experimei to find out how cable operators program suppliers might work local schools and organizations provide some of the educational special interest programming many believe will become a most portant ingredient of cable orit tion. We also intend to invest ways that such programming m be underwritten by local orga tions and national and local ad tisers. We will extend the experi to another cable system later spring to gain additional insight the problems and opportuniiie cable programming." 12 $100125 Million 1972 Videocassette Market Forecast in VIDCA Address Dr. Stallord I . Hopwood. Jr. pi dent of Videorecord Corporation America, has predicted that the vii cassette market will generate revet between SKH) and SIZ.*; million hardware and software sales du 1972, and at the s;ime time c "the lack of significant commitmi from the three major software source centers as "the missing li in the growth of the North .\meri industry. Speaking on the si.ite of the N( American market at Ihe See VinCA International Conference Videocassette and Video-Disc I gramming and Fquipment in Can France. Dr. Hopwix^d remarked tonlinucil on page BUSINESS SCRI i "tin