recording technology

In OTL, during the early days of television, there had been cases throughout numerous countries in Europe and worldwide, where episodes of already broadcast programmes and series were routinely wiped from the tapes they were recorded on. The rationale was that these tapes were expensive. With...

Right from their introduction, it was standard practice to cut microgroove masters from tape sources. Suppose that they also had inside start grooving instead of outside start, being cut in reverse from master tapes. Have any of you noticed that albums originally released as L.P records have...

When sound was first recorded on magnetic tape, it was discovered that extreme distortion would occur due to an intrinsic property of magnetic tape called hysteresis. Did anyone at the time ever notice that the amount of distortion due to this varied according the amplitude and frequency...

Television broadcasting and video recording seem to be quiet an ample topic for alternative history, and a format called the capacitive electronic disc was introduced unusually late in relation to the technology involved, and paradoxically, after the laserdisc. What if a grooved videodisc...