DICK CAVETT - AMPEX HS-200 DISC RECORDER DEMONSTRATION

DICK CAVETT - AMPEX HS-200 DISC RECORDER DEMONSTRATION - 26/06/1972

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@marktubeie07 7 жыл бұрын

Only example I know of on KZfaq of this AMPEX VideoDisc system from the 70s. I used these at ATN7 in Sydney Australia back in the day. The discs had to be polished (or burnished to be exact) weekly by the engineers as part of regular maintenance, because if you left the disc on 'pause' 'for too long (being 1 minute at the most!) it would mark or 'scour' the surface of the discs making them serviceable. As each disc (2 of them) would case around $10,000 in 70s money, you would be dragged into someone's office to explain why if you accidentally left hem in pause! Fascinating video to watch!

@altebander2767 5 жыл бұрын

You can actually see the controls of one in the movie "Brainstorm".

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 жыл бұрын

I"m guessing these were used as "Instant Reply" devices like for sporting events.

@voicetube 4 жыл бұрын

@@ChristopherSobieniak I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned here but my guess is absolutely - that was probably mainly what they were used for (in this case, probably ABC sports).

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 жыл бұрын

@@voicetube Thanks!

@ChristopherSobieniak 3 жыл бұрын

@Sebastian Guevara I mean in the way they can record something in the fly and then play it back during a broadcast. Such devices were used in sporting events.

@ObakuZenCenter 8 жыл бұрын

Good to see this preserved. :)

@vivavintage7940 6 жыл бұрын

muito bom! Excelente, nunca vi o dick explicar sobre esse equipamento. Adorei o video, parabens!

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

The most impressive thing to me is that this video is in better shape than my VHS tapes from the 1990s! 😲

@mattcintosh2 17 күн бұрын

It works pretty much the same as a modern DVR or TIVO. Granted, we are watching a converted capture of what was likely film or 2" Videotape

@pcallas66 5 жыл бұрын

That is the coolest thing ever. Yes, things now are much more sophisticated and people can do way more than this for a fraction of the cost now, but this all had to start somewhere. This was very entertaining.

@atallguynh 6 жыл бұрын

Funny that the guy demonstrating the machine says "3600 rpms per minute", and Cavett then diplomatically corrects him, repeating back "3600 rpm".

@jamiehanrahan4705 6 жыл бұрын

Cavett was easily the smartest of the late night hosts of the era.

@coffeehigh420 5 жыл бұрын

and the hard drives of today (if you are not using a SSD drive) spins at 7200 RPM

@bombasticbuster9340 3 жыл бұрын

BTW, the Ampex instant replay saved the network with Monday Night Football.

@philippevanwalle8271 3 жыл бұрын

Ampex, the best company I ever worked for

@DelilahThePig 6 жыл бұрын

Crazy how the audience reacts. This was just not something the general public ever got to play around with. Even the notion of fields was totally alien.

@ferabra8939 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing..a hard disk that can do slow motion, backwards,fast...and all in the size of a small closet.

@danielh3179 Ай бұрын

Very impressive for 1972. However, not having to sync audio certainly simplified the engineering.

@robertgutierrez7983 4 жыл бұрын

Short of the invention of videotape, this was the 2nd most important video playback invention in the world! Yeah $40k in 1971 is nothing to these networks. Even to local stations, $40k is the then price of a studio camera. Remember, ABC was the one who asked Ampex to invent these, so they probably had a few dozen by this time.

@bombasticbuster9340 3 жыл бұрын

Ampex invented this by accident. Then the president of ABC thought to use it for the failing network on Monday Night Football. Per the Ampex engineer who created it.

@bombasticbuster9340 3 жыл бұрын

A giant video disc for just 30 sec vid.

@tripjet999 3 жыл бұрын

...although instant replay/slow motion was used by ABC back in 1961.

@ejbarnola 4 жыл бұрын

That $40.000 is $245,348.33 in today's market.

@michaelroberts1120 6 жыл бұрын

This cost $40000 in 1972: now you can do the same things on your smartphone, which is like 1/100th the size, and 1/1000 the price (in 2017 dollars) and in higher resolution and better quality video as well!

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. This tech seems like it's from almost a half century ago! ---- Oh, wait.

@wrightmf 4 ай бұрын

but in 1972 you could buy a house in Calif for $40,000.

@TheBasicPilot 3 жыл бұрын

This is what I used For the olympics and many other sports. I’m pretty sure this is an HS100 and not a 200

@voicetube 4 жыл бұрын

So how amazing how now, my old iPhone six (probably not worth even $200 - I guess that would be like $30 in 1970 money?) can pretty much do what that technology did back then with the disk!

@seanmckinnon4612 5 жыл бұрын

This operator is mr. Personality

@davidjames666 4 жыл бұрын

What the people of the day were forced to watch astounds me

@mistertentpole 4 жыл бұрын

Funny, I was thinking the same.

@jamesslick4790 3 жыл бұрын

No one was forced to watch. It was a TV show. There WERE other channels or one could listen to the radio, play records or read. PS: You watched this voluntarily 😜

@northyorkshirechris5735 3 жыл бұрын

I think that to most people back then, this would’ve been a fascinating demonstration of what would’ve been novel and cutting edge technology. Certainly an interesting filler item on the Dick Cavett talk show.

@tomservo5007 5 жыл бұрын

She did divorce her husband and 4 years later, Martha Mitchell died. Strange series of events. Nixon said: "If it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate." -- her death sounds like payback from Nixon goons or to silence her.

@coffeehigh420 6 жыл бұрын

i would love to see what happens when you feed 1080p into that machine and hit record lol

@DuplicatedOnce 7 жыл бұрын

Analog KZfaq Poop

@brentfisher902 7 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering when some rich dude's going to get up the nerve to do a 35mm digital to film recording of the Legend Of Zelda CD-I movies and make a KZfaq poop with razor blades and film splicing tape.