Vintage 1967 AMPEX First Color Video Disc Recorder HS-100 Instant Replay and Slow-Motion (TV)
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- {Updated & Improved video}: AMPEX Corporation's HS-100 - the FIRST Color Video Disc Recorder for SLOW-MO (Slow Motion) and Instant Replay (1967). The HS-100 used Nickel-Cobalt Aluminum magnetic disc to record live video for INSTANT REPLAY. ABC used the HS-100 for slow motion replay during televised sports events. The computer-controlled HS-200 is also mentioned. We hope you enjoy this brief tribute to this iconic Ampex machine.
- - - Dedicated to AMPEX employees, past and present. - - -
Run time, about 6 mins.
Computer History Archives Project (CHAP). Editing: Victor Kaminsky; consulting: Mark Greenia.
Acknowledgements - - - - - Special Thanks to:
VT Oldboys.com, a great web site on early video technology
www.vtoldboys.com/slo60_3.htm
www.vtoldboys.com/
LabGuy's World: The History of Video Tape Recorders before Betamax and VHS”.
A large, well organized collection of vintage information, facts, photos, and detail.
www.labguysworld.com/
American Broadcasting Company
“ABC” logo and “Wide World of Sports” historic clip courtesy of ABC Television Network; “Dick Cavett” clip courtesy of ABC late night, (ABC is a Walt Disney Company since 1996)
For historical information on AMPEX, and current businesses,
www.Ampex.com
FILM: “Success Story” (History of Ampex)
• Success Story: Ampex
(uploaded by Stephen Barncard)
“The Early Days of Ampex Corporation, as Recalled by John Leslie and Ross Snyder.”
www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/company...
Department of Special Collections, Stanford University holds physical records
library.stanford.edu/
Milestones: Ampex Videotape Recorder, 1956
ethw.org/Milestones:Ampex_Vid...
Museum of early consumer electronics and 1st achievements
www.rewindmuseum.com/ampex.htm
AMPEX TODAY
Ampex Data Systems Corporation ("ADSC”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Information Systems. Inc and is headquartered in Hayward, California. It is an industry leader in high-capacity, high-performance data storage systems.
Ampex Intelligent Systems (AIS) is the Colorado Springs business unit of Ampex Data Systems Corporation (“ADSC”) which is headquartered in Silicon Valley. AIS provides revolutionary industrial control system cyber security solutions for critical infrastructures.
Visit ampex.com
This video is for historic and educational use only.
Not affiliated with Ampex Corporation.
Note: MachTronics (aka MVR Corp.) produced an analog video recorder for CBS television back in the 1960’s. That machine is not covered in this video, but will be explored in a future video.
Past News about the famous AMPEX SIGN
www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local...
www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/1... - Наука та технологія
Ampex made things that many other firms just dreamed about. Amazing company. Where Dolby got his start.
Amen.
The magic of course, is that this was developed in the era of analog 2-inch quadruplex recording (it used some of the same processing electronics).
At the time, tape slo-mo or freeze frames were literally impossible, as was reverse motion.
Despite being limited to 30 seconds recording time (36s in PAL 625)… these machines were used in almost every high-end facility for 15 years.
One inch tape with jump-scan tracking, and digital recording techniques eventually put these units to rest.
It was a lot of fun working through those years.
Hi L. Austin Speiss, thank you very much for your comment! Great observations! ~ CHAP
In the early 70's, I was working at a local UHF station that Ted Turner owned and had just bought the Braves baseball franchise. At that time, WTCG-ch17 was renting remote television trucks and equipment to broadcast the games along with an HS-100 Slo-Mo video disc. None of us had ever seen one of these in action, only ads in broadcast mags. My job was running the audio board during the games and this amazing piece of technology was placed about 3 feet away from me so I was able to observe it in action. We had 3 Ampex 1200B Quad VTRs which generated a significant noise level from the compressed air and vacuum required by the rotary video heads. The HS-100 was extremely quiet which stunned the engineering staff as everyone watched it in operation. It was a jaw dropping memorable moment I will never forget.
To me, the HS-100 represents the "missing link" that began the transition from analog to digital recording, audio and video both. Can't say enough about AMPEX Corp and the legacy they pioneered. Thank you Mr. Poniatoff
Hi Drake, thank you for those great memories and insights! It sounds like that was a fantastic time to be involved with this early technology! Thanks for sharing your experience with this. ~ VK, CHAP
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I was involved in Television in the late 1970s in Indianapolis. The local station WTTV-4 had one in their remote truck. They were known for broadcasting Indiana sports.
Hi Harold, good story. WTTV-4 INDY. cool. ~
When I was much younger, I remember reading about this in an old encyclopedia from the late 60's without too much details, just that it used a disk, the recording time was 30 seconds, and it was used for instant replay. It's lovely to get much more details at last.
I grew up in the 70s. I cannot overstate what’s so significant about that Dick Cavett demo, namely the way the image is so _perfectly smooth_ during playback!
This wasn’t possible even in the 80s and 90s with videotape, you’d get tracking lines, even with broadcast quality VTRs!
Yes, it beat the heck out of tape for It's function and was all the way up until digital, it was the best quality for variable speed video clips in both directions.
Wow. I often wish I was around back then to witness the exciting birth of this technology. Must have been fun times! :)
I enjoyed this video. I received AMPEX training in 1974. I operated the backpack recorder and camera and the VX 1000.
When a local TV station got two new AMPEX VRX-1000 it was such a big deal for them they had a two hour daytime special in which they demonstrated live and, of course, on tape, the capabilities of the new machines. Naturally, they taped the program on one of the machines and re-broadcast it several times in the following weeks.
Very cool story. Would be great to get a copy of that early recording...
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject It was KTTV Channel 11 in L.A. It's a Fox owned station now.
Thanks!
Amazing that in the field of electronics and media that the average person today has access to tech undreamed of back then
I heard it said that the only recording the BBC had of Virginia Wade holding the Wimbledon winner's dish was on the slo-mo disc - and that by accident. I never used one, but I saw it. I'm a VT Old Boy btw.
I remember first hearing about the AMPEX while watching S G Collins' great video called "Moon Hoax Not" discussing how it would have been impossible to fake the moon landings using slow motion replay video of people on a stage shot with regular cameras because there simply wasn't a way to store enough. In 1969 it wasn't possible to stream a continuous slow motion replay of hours of live footage being shown. Amazing how fast things developed thereafter.
So there was a way to get to the moon and back with 60s technology...but no way to create hours of slo mo....well fair enough..that wraps that up then.
@@LionheartNh You really should watch Moon Hoax Not. It's here on UA-cam and only 13 minutes, but yeah, it wraps up the whole "they filmed it on a back lot" angle, because it wasn't filmed and there wasn't a way to store enough slo-mo _video_ in 1969. We'd been chucking things at the moon for a decade by then, the Soviets had sent back photos from the surface in '66, and the only "technology" involved in coming back was lifting off again in 1/6th gravity and no atmosphere at the right moment.
That's right, because all the technology was being used to get men to the moon and back.. and do it Safely. Moon shot first!
@@LionheartNh In World War II they supposedly built an atomic bomb while also dragging artillery around with horses. Therefore, WWII never happened. That wraps that up then.
Even today, it is not possible to simulate motion in reduced gravity. Even the best CGI programmers are not educated in the kinematics of motion in reduced gravity, such as how the center of gravity behaves in such a gravitational field and much more. Many people, even film experts, think that slow-motion images are enough. That is not enough. Therefore, visible errors still occur, and so far no computer attempt has matched the actual movement on the surface of the Moon from the Apollo project.
Very Intresting how much money people where willing to spend to have a good replay for 30 seconds. Now we get a commercial spot for free replayed if we want or not here in yt.
I just came back from SF and was saddened to learn that Stanford hospital removed the iconic, landmark AMPEX sign from their new complex next to Highway 101.
Damn. That sucks.
I think the HS-100 was used in a scene of the 1975 Doctor Who serial The Pyramids of Mars. Really cool tech!
Used to have a ampex reel to reel tape recorder still have the mic’s that came with it and they still work
I'll bet your Ampex RTR is still operational somewhere, if it's been cared for. Ampex equipment was built to last.
Fascinating! Love the history of video (in all its iterations). Thank very much!
Looks like a huge hard drive platter!
That's basicaly what it is. :)
It is basically a hard drive platter. The major difference is that the data (signal) recorded is analog rather than digital.
@@frankowalker4662 Yep! It's a high speed hard magnetic disk. In this application, It holds an analog video signal rather than blips of 0s & 1s - But that's only important for the controller and the end user. The disk itself could have EASILY stored digital data! Hard disks existed commercially YEARS BEFORE floppy disks. (1957 vs 1970). 🤯
@@jamesslick4790 I wonder if they also had to change the magnetic formulation on the platter.
@@8BitNaptime That's a good question. IDK.
I'd love one of these in my living room.
Ampexって既に、ソニーよりも前にハードディスクレコーダーを作っていたんですね🤩
{Google translate says: "So, they were already making hard disk recorders before Sony." (Japanese)
interesting...
Ohhhh, shiny.
Big names were here. Ellison, etc. I still own ampex 2inch recording tape
It’s funny how much tech has changed today you can do all this on a phone
Unbelievable ...
The AMPEX-Files
Oh wow, CMC used to be good? I've known them since the mid 2000s for making really awful blank media (CD-R/DVD±R) that would fail in mere months. I had to start checking the manufacturers of blank media I bought to avoid CMC
A plenty of old "AMPEX" 2' & 1" video tape recorders were used by TVP - the communist television in the People's Republic of Poland in the middle of 70-s of XXth Century. I remember that fact !!!!
@3:41 - NO TOUCHEE with bare skin!
There's a story about AMPEX that only the ones very close to the company knew. The first AMPEX videotape recorder was a monster in size and they needed to shrink the thing down in size. To do that they contacted SONY about making those circuits smaller. A deal was done with the SONY founders to develop and reduce the size of the circuitry. Their deal was that SONY wouldn't manufacture VTRs for the professional industry and AMPEX will not make VTRs for the consumers. This deal was sealed with a shake of hands , not by a paper contract. The thing is that AMPEX thought that a shake of hands wasn't a legally binding contract with SONY and they started to produce consumer VTRs . SONY view this as a violation of their agreement with AMPEX and started to produce VTRs for the Broadcasting industry and everyone knows what happened to AMPEX and RCA . In JAPAN an agreement sealed with a shake of hands IS LEGAL and BONDING, at least in those times. Now they sign a contract like everyone else.
Hi Mr. Pedro D. Rodriquez Sr., thank you for the great comment and insight! That is a fascinating bit of history we did not know. Certainly makes sense in hindsight. Thank you so much. (Did you work for Ampex?) ~ Victor, CHAP
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject I didn't work for AMPEX , but for RCA as a RF engineer installing all kinds of transmission systems all over the Americas. A friend of mine who did work for AMPEX heard a conversation between someone in the high management close to the company's president and CEO and he heard the complete story of this encounter and why the company was failing. For me it's a lesson that I will never forget about keeping your word even if you sealed your deal with a shake of hands.
Mr. Pedro, thank you very much. Great advice! ~ Victor, CHAP
5 pounds, 30 seconds of low quality data - truly a miracle of the age !
No sound too!
The relative quality depends on how much of the full NTSC video signal was recorded. Doubt that you have a clue about that.
@@dalecomer5951 Well that escalated quickly ! Facts are facts - the video quality sucks, I am just amazed that a) we were able to create it at all back then and b) how far we have come since then.
@@rags417 Not facts. Your opinion. You are judging something done over 50 years ago by contemporary standards. Do you expect everything which is created to be immediately as good it could ever be otherwise it "sucks" in your opinion?
@@dalecomer5951 Why the fuck are you being so hostile ? I pointed out that the technology of the time was truly amazing but still yielded results that by today's standards seem terribly lame. Of course it sucked - I can't think of any technology that started off great but then got WORSE over time. FWIW I worked in electronics in various roles back in the 80s so I have a fair bit of experience in and respect for older tech. I can still say that it was objectively shit by today's standards, denying that is simply trolling on your part.
Only 30 seconds is much too little.......
Thought It was the Philips who invented it
oh... a harddrive... nothing new.. move right along...
You said 1967?
Were can I get one of those?
But more importantly... can I store my 10 TB of pr0n on it??? :-)
Hi Thiesen, perhaps, but wouldn't it take over 1,000 of those disks to do that? That would be several tons of storage. : ) VK, CHAP
"30 seconds ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates
i see what you did there
Bill Gates had NOTHING to do with this technology.
I was born in 1971, when TV was largely pure crap.
...... in YOUR opinion! 60s and 70s TV wasn't "pure crap," and that is MY OPINION, shared, I'm sure, by many others!