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See media help. The history of sound recording - which has progressed in waves, driven by the invention and commercial introduction of new technologies — can be roughly divided into four main periods: The Acoustic era (1877–1925) The Electrical era (1925–1945) The Magnetic era (1945–1975) The Digital era (1975–present)
The Digital Era. The LP lived on, but in the mass market, both the LP and the cassette were pushed aside by the Compact Disc. The Phillips company, which had earlier introduced the cassette, had developed a laser disc for video recording in the late 1970s. Phillips teamed up with Sony, which had developed a digital tape recorder for making ...
First digital recordings were saved on magnetic tapes and were demonstrated to the public in late 60s Japan. However, it was 1977 that saw the release of first commercially available digital audio recorder - Sony PCM-1. It converted analog audio into digital and stored it on VHS tapes that would later be used in digital mastering, but ...
Apr 2, 2019 · Commercial digital recording had launched in Japan in the early 1970s, and the few imported LPs they’d heard hadn’t overly impressed Woods and Renner. Nonetheless, they arranged to meet with Dr. Stockham at the 1977 AES meeting in New York City and had a listen to his Soundstream recorder. They felt that the professor’s machine had ...
1989: Test broadcasts for NICAM stereo digital audio for broadcast TV began in the UK. 1990: Digital radio begins in Canada, using the L-Band. [51] 1991: Alesis Digital Audio Tape is a tape format used for simultaneously recording eight tracks of digital audio at once, onto Super VHS magnetic tape – a format similar to that used by consumer VCRs.
Feb 25, 2008 · The history of sound recording can be broken down into four distinct periods, each with its own characteristic technologies and practices: the acoustic era (ca 1877-1925); the electrical era (1925-48); the magnetic era (1948-80); and the digital era beginning around 1972 but achieving widespread impact only during the 1980s.
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Bit Rate refers to a measurement of digital audio based on the following equation and is usually expressed in kilobits/second. Bit rate = (bit depth) x (sampling rate) x (number of channels) Again, CD quality equals 16-bit and should be the minimum bit depth used for field recordings.
