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Ampex and the videotape recorder
1956
Redwood City, California
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Television had been live or filmed, and film took hours to process. A small Redwood City company built a machine that recorded a picture onto magnetic tape and played it straight back, and broadcast changed shape: the delay for the west coast feed, the instant replay, the rerun. The first demonstration reduced a room of CBS engineers to standing on their chairs.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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