2" Quadruplex Quad video tape format relaesed by the Ampex Corporation.
The Post Master General (PMG) decides on the 625 line TV system for Australian television. Television brodcast licenses were not issued until 1956.
On 5 November 1956, the Australian Broadcasting Commission's television service ABN Channel 2 began transmission. Television was just months old in Australia with TCN-9, HSV-7 and GTV-9 having started in September. ABC television's opening ceremony was produced from an outside broadcast van parked on Kellett Street in Kings Cross, Sydney and...
Betacam SP tape format is released by the Sony Corporation. This improvement of the Betacam format increased horizontal resolution considerably, and the new larger cassette tape was capable of recording 90 minutes of colour video. The SP stood for "Superior Performance", and it quickly became the industry standard for television and high-end...
The Sony Corporation releases the BetaMax tape format. The format was also known simply as Beta, and was developed as a consumer-level analog videocassette magnetic tape recording format released in Japan on May 10, 1975.
Blu Ray players were backwards compatible with the DVD and CD formats.
D-1 was digital recording video standard introduced through the efforts of the SMPTE engineering committees. It began as a Sony and Bosch product, and was the first major professional digital video format.
The D-2 tape format was developed by Ampex and others working through a standards group of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). D-2 was a professional digital recording videocassette format introduced as a lower-cost alternative to the D-1 format.
Digital Betacam (commonly referred to as DigiBeta, D-Beta, DBC or simply Digi) was ldeveloped by Sony. It supersedes both Betacam and Betacam SP, while costing significantly less than the professional D-1 format.
DV was a compressed standard definition digital video format lauched in 1995. DV equipment was generally significantly cheaper than previous digital video formats. Domestic and professional camcorders recorded this format onto magnetic tape cassettes either as a PAL or NTSC signal. Audio was recorded as uncompressed linear PCM.
The DVD (digital versatile disc) optical disc storage format was invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. They provided high storage capacity and digital video playback on a disc of the same dimeonsionas as a Compact Disc (CD). DVD was seen as an inexpensive format to replace...
Sony and other cmpanies release the EIAJ Type 1 open reel video tape format. The format offered black-and-white (and later colour) video recording and playback on 1/2" magnetic tape on a 7"-diameter open reel, with portable units using smaller 5"-diameter reels.
The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia. It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed...
The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia. It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed...
Fairlight (Sydney) releases the Computer Video Instrument (CVI). The CVI was used extensively by artists such as Jill Scott and Peter Callas, often in a pair (or more) cascading from one to the other. It had a small graphic tablet in the control panel but a larger one could be...
"In 1934 the Royal Society, a scientific body, sponsored the first regular (although experimental) 30-line Baird system television transmissions in Australia. T.M. Elliot and Dr Val McDowell conducted these experiments in Brisbane." source: http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/commission/books...
