CHAPTER 5.8 Video Recording
STEVE EPSTEIN
Broadcast Buyers Guide, Columbia, Missouri
INTRODUCTION
In the early days of television, film provided the only method for recording and storing video images and by 1954 American television operations used more raw film than all of the Hollywood studios combined. Following the introduction of the first practical videotape recorder (VTR) in the 1950s, there was a rapid migration from film to videotape, with its advantages of instant replay and reusable media. Tape-based systems revolutionized and dominated television recording for more than fifty years, although film continues to this day to be the first step in the production chain for some types of programming both in the studio and on location. Since ...
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