5 mil where 1 mil = 1/1000 inch) for different purposes, which now include video and digital recording. The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic ...

UNESCO has called for the digitization of audio and video recordings kept in academic and cultural institutions.

“If you had a really moldy tape, there was mold flying everywhere,” Crouch told me about existing cleaning methods. “I just finally decided there had to be a better way. So I sat down and started ...

Before DVDs and Blu-ray, and before CDs and Walkmans were cool, there was of course the trusted VCR that used a form of magnetic tape video recording. A VHS cassette contained up to about 1,410 ...

Island Inspired Innovations] This episode introduces technological innovations designed to deal with issues facing some of ...

5 mil where 1 mil = 1/1000 inch) for different purposes, which now include video and digital recording ... (which breaks when pulled). Uncoated tape used to separate other sections of tape is called ...

There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two ...

The first electronic storage medium, magnetic tape is made of flexible plastic with one side coated with a ferromagnetic material. The data are recorded as binary digits (bits) in the form of ...