LEGACY TAPE TIMELINE
Major Stepping-stones
1893 Vladimir Poulsen’s first wire magnetic recorder
1900 US patent for steel wire recording
1929 Fritz Pfleumer builds paper-based audio tape recorder
1934 BASF produces acetate-based audio tape
1939 Germans mass-produce plastic-based audio tape
1945 Allies seize German Magnetophon in Luxembourg
1946 Paper-backed audio tape available on American market
1948 3M introduces cellulose acetate-based audio tape in US
1951 Crosby Enterprises demonstrates video tape recording
1954 Polyester-based audiotape marketed in US
1956 2” Quad video tape
1964 Philips introduces compact audio cassette
1969 1/2” EIAJ portable video recorder
1971 Dolby audio noise reduction; 3/4” video tape
1976 VHS video tape
1977 3M introduces commercially available digital audio tape
1978 1” type C video tape
1986 Betacam SP video tape; D-1 digital video tape
NOTE: On average, at least two new video formats have been introduced yearly between 1986 and 2000. Virtually all of these have been digital. Some years have seen as many as five new video formats introduced.
Excerpted from information supplied by The Library of Congress.
1893 Vladimir Poulsen’s first wire magnetic recorder
1900 US patent for steel wire recording
1929 Fritz Pfleumer builds paper-based audio tape recorder
1934 BASF produces acetate-based audio tape
1939 Germans mass-produce plastic-based audio tape
1945 Allies seize German Magnetophon in Luxembourg
1946 Paper-backed audio tape available on American market
1948 3M introduces cellulose acetate-based audio tape in US
1951 Crosby Enterprises demonstrates video tape recording
1954 Polyester-based audiotape marketed in US
1956 2” Quad video tape
1964 Philips introduces compact audio cassette
1969 1/2” EIAJ portable video recorder
1971 Dolby audio noise reduction; 3/4” video tape
1976 VHS video tape
1977 3M introduces commercially available digital audio tape
1978 1” type C video tape
1986 Betacam SP video tape; D-1 digital video tape
NOTE: On average, at least two new video formats have been introduced yearly between 1986 and 2000. Virtually all of these have been digital. Some years have seen as many as five new video formats introduced.
Excerpted from information supplied by The Library of Congress.