A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio ...

Tips on analog tape, tape recorders, tape bias, logic inputs, and logic control Nov 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By John Landry, CSRE Analog Tape Part 2, Electronics Figure 1. The standardized tape recording and ...

The first recorders consisted of racks of vacuum tubes. The recordings and servos were entirely analog, and the timer was mechanical and accurate to a few seconds an hour on a good day. Editing was ...

The Fisher-Price PXL 2000 PixelVision could record low quality black and white video on cassette tapes back in the ‘80s. Photo: Mattel ()Some of our more veteran readers might remember that ...

Analog video formats brought videotape to the home user in the early 1980s, using the Betamax VHS cassette formats. But those camcorders were expensive and bulky, in their earliest implementation ...

— Dan in Bellevue. A. Yes, you can use a DVD recorder for converting your analog video into digital and moving it over to your computer. And while DVD recorders generally come with basic editing ...

I'm the kind of record buyer that always reads album credits, and starting in the early 1990s, with the Pixies' "Surfer Rosa," Nirvana's "In Utero," and PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me" I noticed that all ...

Calibration tapes for analog audio recording. By JAY MCKNIGHT published 1 December 2003 ... The professional video industry's #1 source for ... (Note: During the early years of tape recording — 1948 ...

From 1977 to 1981, Pioneer introduced a groundbreaking reel-to-reel tape deck, the RT-707, ... making a significant impact on the world of analog audio recording and playback.

The technology used for tape recording is analog, most simply explained as a continuous set of sound waves. With digital, the audio signals are converted into a stream of numbers and recorded.