{"id":673449,"date":"2010-02-23T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5478248"},"modified":"2010-02-23T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:20:00","slug":"back-in-1967-this-was-your-average-camcorder-retromodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673449","title":{"rendered":"Back In 1967, This Was Your Average Camcorder [Retromodo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/vr-3000_005.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_vr-3000_005.jpg?w=500\" class=\"left image500\"  \/><\/a>Actually, the <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #ampexvr3000backpack\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/ampexvr3000backpack\/\">Ampex VR-3000 backpack<\/a>&mdash;only $42,000 for the basic recorder without accessories&mdash;with <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #bc300bwcamera\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/bc300bwcamera\/\">BC-300 BW Camera<\/a>&mdash;just $12,685&mdash;was the <i>only<\/i> camcorder available. It changed TV forever, moving the entire broadcast television industry from film to video.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5478210,4,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The video format&mdash;invented by Redwood City-based Ampex in 1965&mdash;was called 2-inch Quadruplex, and used four magnetic heads to record both PAL and NTSC standards using different speeds. 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It changed TV forever, moving the entire broadcast television industry from film to video. The video format&mdash;invented by Redwood City-based Ampex in 1965&mdash;was called 2-inch Quadruplex, and used four magnetic heads to record both PAL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Pc5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}