An Experimental Television Recording and Playback System Using Photographic Discs

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 79, No. 11, pp. 997–1002
Abstract: An experimental television recording and playback system has been designed and built that employs photographic discs as the storage medium. The video and sync are recorded as analog signals on a spiral track. A 12-in diameter disc can store a one-half hour full-bandwidth television program. Initial experiments indicate that copies can be made from a master recording by contact printing. The research was completed before high-quality gas lasers and compatible emulsions were available. Pictorial information from a 16mm motion-picture film was recorded on a plate at 1/16 real time using high-pressure mercury arc sources and a Kerr-cell modulator. Playback was in real time. Details of the reading and playback system are described. Pictures indicating the quality of the television presentation at the conclusion of the research are included.
Publication Date: 1970-11-01
DOI: 10.5594/J13580
ISSN: Print: 0361-4573
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J13580
Author(s): Philip RiceStanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Mr. Crews is now at Chabot College, Hayward, CA
Albert MacovskiStanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Mr. Crews is now at Chabot College, Hayward, CA
Earle D. JonesStanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Mr. Crews is now at Chabot College, Hayward, CA
Hugh FrohbachStanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Mr. Crews is now at Chabot College, Hayward, CA
R. Wayne CrewStanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Mr. Crews is now at Chabot College, Hayward, CA
A. W. NoonStanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Mr. Crews is now at Chabot College, Hayward, CA
Copyright: © 1970 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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Printing Motion-Picture Films Immersed in a Liquid Part III: Evaluation of Liquids [Active]
Printing Motion-Picture Films Immersed in a Liquid: Part I: Contact Printing [Active]
1. Stevens G. W. W. , Microphotography , John Wiley & Sons , New York , 1957 , p. 186 . EXTERNAL

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Philip Rice, Albert Macovski, Earle D. Jones, Hugh Frohbach, R. Wayne Crew, and A. W. Noon; An Experimental Television Recording and Playback System Using Photographic Discs, Journal of the SMPTE ( Volume: 79, Issue: 11, November 1970); SMPTE, 1970. Available at https://doi.org/10.5594/J13580

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Philip Rice, Albert Macovski, Earle D. Jones, Hugh Frohbach, R. Wayne Crew, and A. W. Noon; An Experimental Television Recording and Playback System Using Photographic Discs, Journal of the SMPTE ( Volume: 79, Issue: 11, November 1970); SMPTE, 1970. Available at https://doi.org/10.5594/J13580

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