TV Guide (April 9, 1954)

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New RCA Equipment May Replace Film And Make It Possible To Record Favorite Shows From Your TV Set porters. The tape would not have to be sent away for processing with its attendant delays and extra costs. In the home, the tape equipment could be connected to the television set to make a personal recording of a fa¬ vorite television program.” This isn’t conjecture on the Gen¬ eral’s part. On December 1, 1953, an effective demonstration of the system was given in a color telecast beamed from NBC in New York to the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey, 45 miles away. Here’s how it worked. The program was seen as it ar¬ rived at Princeton. At the same in¬ stant, the tape recording system put the television picture on a strip of magnetically-coated plastic tape as thin as paper, one-half inch in width. During part of this transmission, both the live program from the microwave radio relay and an immediate play¬ back of the magnetic tape recording were shown on different color re¬ ceivers. The quality of the recording was quite good. When TV tape finally becomes avail¬ able for home use, it should make a violent dent in our culture. If you’re a staunch 1 Love Lucy fan, and you have to be out while it’s on, you can have someone record the show on TV tape, to be seen later. Home mov¬ ies? Well, you know about home mov¬ ies. While General Sarnoff instigated the research on TV tape, a team of seven scientists were responsible for its development: Dr. Harry F. Olson and William D. Houghton, who headed up the program, Maurice Artzt, J. T. Fischer, A. R. Morgan, J. G. Wood¬ ward and Joseph Zenel. Here’s how the tape process com¬ pares with kinescope recording. In going from the electrical signals of the camera to the signals for rebroad¬ cast by a TV transmitter, kinescope recording requires four separate in¬ termediate pictures to be formed, two by television and two photographi¬ cally. Magnetic tape, in contrast, stores the electrical signals directly as they come from the TV camera. No pro¬ cessing, electronic or photographic, is necessary. Tape save hours of time and immense quantities of equipment. Seagram-Distillers Corporation, New York City. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Proof. 65% Grain Neutral Spirits. 19