Wednesday, March 28, 2012

RTR Of Unusual Size

Weeks of listening pleasure on one reel.
Posted by Iain at 9:31 AM
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  1. Actually dont think so.
    I believe its the first attempt at video recording by the BBC.

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  3. "Weeks of listening pleasure on one reel."

    Nope.

    This image shows a Marconi-Stille steel tape recorder used by the BBC in the late Thirties:

    http://www.orbem.co.uk/tapes/ms.htm

    The maximum recording time was 30 minutes and the audio quality was perhaps slightly better than telephone quality (100Hz-6kHz, 35dB SNR)

    Thomas

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  4. 30 minutes..... Sigh..... Guess I'll have to make my own giganto reel player.

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