Proposed SMPTE Type C Helical-Scan Recording Format: A Subcommittee Report

A resident of Palo Alto, California, David K. Fibush earned his B.S.E.E. in 1962 and his M.S.E.E. in 1965, both at the University of California at Berkeley. David has held various engineering design and management positions with Ampex Corporation for the past thirteen years. His first five years at Ampex were spent in the Research Division working on electron-beam and laser-beam recorders. Since then, David has been Project Manager of the ACR-25 quadruplex cassette recorder development project and Section Manager responsible for development of the A VR-2 and A VR-3 quad VTR's. Mr. Fibush is currently Engineering Section Manager in Ampex Corporation's Audio Video Systems Division. He is in charge of product design of helical VTR's using the proposed SMPTE Type-C format. A member of SMPTE, David has served on a number of working groups appointed by the Committee on Video Recording and Reproduction Technology; including the working group on the Type-B and Type-C One-inch Helical-scan Video Tape Formats. Mr. Fibush is presently an active member of the VRRT Committee, as well as Chairman of its Subcommittee on Helical Recording.