<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>To go with Mark's post, I started looking for photos of the ADR-150, I discovered a link that shows 1970 was a very busy year for introduction of video recorders, at least according to:</div><div><a href="http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1970.htm">http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1970.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>The largest machines are likely the Ampex AVR-1 and the Ampex ADR-150 Quad high speed contact printer introed in April (NAB, I'd think...) and the ACR-25 Quad cart machine (Nov.) </div><div><br></div><div>Small machines included ones from JVC, Panasonic, Philips, AVCO's Cartrivision, and the Ampex-Toshiba Instavision cartridge recorder.</div><div><br></div><div>IVC also introed the 4101 TBC.</div><div><br></div><div>Memorex announced a thermal videotape duplication method and DuPont outlined a "thermo-remnant" process for duping Chromium DiOxide video tapes at high speed. </div><div><br></div></div><div>Ted.</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>