The Videotape Recorder Turns 50
Routine NAB preview event showcased revolutionary technology
by James E. O'Neal
The Ampex video recorder is unveiled at the NARTB show in Chicago, April 14, 1956.
FALLS CHURCH, VA.: In an age when video cameras and recording devices are virtually everywhere, it's difficult to believe that it wasn't always possible to walk into a Wal-Mart or Best Buy store with $50 and leave with a new video recorder.
The science of magnetically recording video images is so mature today that it's taken completely for granted, but that was not always the case. Television broadcasting as we know it appeared in the mid-1930s. Video recording technology lagged by another 20 years."
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