It Took Nearly A Century For Mag-Netic Tape Recording To Reach Its Present State-Of-The-Art In Airborne Hardware; A 6 Mhz Mil-E-5400 Vtr Available Off-The Shelf. Wideband Magnetic Recording Really Started In 1952 When Engineers Seriously Began To Develop Video Tape Recorders For Tv Applications. The Rotary Head Technology From These Efforts Resulted In Vtr Products Capable Of Storing And Redroducing The 4.2 Mhz Bandwidth Of Standard Television. Reliable Products Were Developed. Actual Production Hardware Resulted And There Has Been Consistent Refinement, A Wide Selection Of Products And, Lately, Much Cheaper Recorders Available, This Is A Mature Technology Which Slowly Evolved And Found Its Niche In Life.

Date Published: 1 October 1973
PDF: 2 pages
Proc. SPIE 0036, Military Airborne Video Recording: Requirements, Utilization, and Technology, (1 October 1973); doi: 10.1117/12.953687

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0036:
Military Airborne Video Recording: Requirements, Utilization, and Technology
Stanley J. Rostocki, Editor(s)