Ampex Receives 12th Technical Emmy for Slow Motion Instant Replay.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- Ampex Corporation (Nasdaq:AMPX) was honored last evening at the 57th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards dinner in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756. , where it took home its 12th Emmy. Ampex was recognized for its invention of slow-motion color recording and playback. The award was accepted by Vice President and General Counsel Joel D. Talcott. At a time before the invention of tape slow motion was possible, Ampex recorded 30 seconds of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color motion video on a hard-disk recorder, which could then instantly reproduce high quality images over a wide range of speeds. In 1967, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. premiered a new era in sports broadcasting when its coverage of the World Series of Skiing from Vail, Colorado "Vail" redirects here. For the community in Arizona, see Vail, Arizona. For the city in Iowa, see Vail, Iowa. Vail, Colorado is a town in Eagle County, Colorado, USA. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 4,589. , debuted slow-motion color review of the events within moments of the actual competition. This represented another in a long series of technical advances for the television industry by Ampex Corporation. Other Emmy awards include: 1957 for the development of the videotape recorder; 1967 for the development of the color VTR-2000; 1978 for Automatic Scan Tracking for tape slow motion; 1978 for the Type-C format videotape recorder; 1981 for Electronic Still Store; 1983 for Digital Special Effects; 1984 for the first helical scan portable videotape recorder; 1986 for the Advanced Digital Video Processor; 1989 for digital video recording technology development; and 1990 for automated commercial spot players. Also honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards were the members of the engineering team that created the videotape recorder when they worked for Ampex -- Charles Andersen, Ray Dolby, Shelby Henderson and Fred Pfost, and the late Charles Ginsburg and Alex Maxey. In honor of the Academy and its honorees, Ampex made a contribution to the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. to aid in the hurricane recovery efforts. Ampex Corporation, www.ampex.com, headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , is one of the world's leading innovators and licensors of technologies for the visual information age. |
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