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Other viewpoints: Plug is pulled on the VCR

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 05 Aug 2016
The VCR, in frail health for decades, has died. The Funai Corp. of Japan, last known maker of videocassette recorders, said it would stop making the machines by the end of July. Official cause of death. “difficulty acquiring parts.” More likely ... In 1956, the Ampex Electric and Manufacturing Co ... Fred Pfost, an Ampex engineer, secretly taped and then played back a speech delivered by a network vice president to a group of executives ... PC.)....

Last VCR maker stops production

Edit The Times of India 22 Jul 2016
Many new technologies are born with a bang. Virtual reality head sets! Renewable rockets! And old ones often die with a whimper. So it is for the videocassette recorder, or VCR, that once-revolutionary device ... The Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported on the impending demise earlier this month ... In 1956, Ampex Electric and Manufacturing Company introduced what its website calls "the first practical videotape recorder." ... "Goodbye, DVD ... RELATED....

R.I.P., VCR: outdated technology dies at 60

Edit The Times Picayune 22 Jul 2016
The videocassette recorder that revolutionized home entertainment by allowing television audiences to capture their favorite shows on tape and watch them at their leisure will die at the end of the month after a decade-long battle with obsolescence ... Funai Electric Co ... Video recording technology itself dates to the early 1920s, but the company Ampex is credited with developing the first commercially viable videotape recorder in 1956 ... ....

The long, final goodbye of the VCR

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 21 Jul 2016
The last-known company still manufacturing them, the Funai Corp ... In 1956, Ampex Electric and Manufacturing Co ... VHS gained the upper hand the following decade, but Sony stopped producing Betamax cassette tapes only in 2016 ... In effect, a VCR makes you independent of television schedules ... > ....

Interview with Dennis Dragon of the Surf Punks (Part 1)

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
The following is a conversation with Dennis Dragon of the infamous SoCal punk rock band the Surf Punks. Loud, obnoxious, and insulting; the Punks made party anthems that poked fun at the absurdities of the 1980’s surf scene. Call it anti surf music surf music ... I just held on for the ride ... I just loved jazz ... He got these early Ampex tape machines, and I thought those were kinda cool - Look at the tape spinning around – so I got into that....

Tim Hortons' 'aggressive' Central Ohio growth plans, Columbus' growing fashion scene, Middlefield Banking's new market ...

Edit Business Journal 11 Jan 2016
Restaurant Brands International Inc., the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain's parent since it merged with Burger King, has a new franchisee agreement with Ampex Brands that calls for acquiring existing Tim Hortons restaurants in the Columbus, Dayton and Zanesville markets along with "aggressive development commitments over the next six years," the companies said in a press release....

Prog Rock FAQ covers ins and outs of rock's misunderstood middle child

Edit The Examiner 06 Jan 2016
Those educating archivists at Backbeat Books are at it again ... Think you know it all when it comes to Slowhand and Mr ... Take a seat and crack a FAQ ... Discover how classical music influenced prog’s earliest practitioners, how ELP purloined Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite” (and Kim Fowley’s business acumen) for a rousing Bach-rocker, and how Yes (and producer Eddie Offord) carefully edited strands of Ampex tape into cohesive passages....

'Won't be the same without him': Lyons staple Hanno Jensen dead at 68

Edit Denver Post 20 Dec 2015
Native of Germany had emigrated to the U.S. when he was 8. Hanno Jensen, at home at his residence in Lyons ... (Kathy Jensen / Courtesy photo) ... He was 68 ... After a divorce roughly a decade later, he found himself working for the high-tech California company Ampex, where he met Kathy, a Chicago girl who moved to L.A., mostly for the warm weather, as soon as she was 18. ....

Stanford takes next step toward Redwood City Campus (Stanford University)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Dec 2015
(Source. Stanford University). The Redwood City campus of Stanford University, scheduled to open in 2019, will provide office space for more than 2,300 employees and include a fitness center and pool. (ZGF Architects). Stanford Report, December 9, 2015 ... The 35-acre site, the former Mid-Point Technology Park, is about five miles from the main campus and was once home to Ampex, an electronics firm that pioneered reel-to-reel tape recorders....

Lawrence Pugh, Whose VF Corp. Overtook Levi Jeans, Dies at 82

Edit Bloomberg 07 Dec 2015
Lawrence Pugh, who built VF Corp. into the largest publicly held U.S. apparel manufacturer and propelled it past Levi Strauss & Co. as the biggest jeans maker by adding Wrangler to its Lee brand, has died. He was 82. He died Dec ... The cause was respiratory failure ... “But still it’s a huge business ... Marketing Moves ... Early Life ... He moved to Redwood City, California-based Ampex Corp., a maker of recording tape, as director of marketing in 1970....

The TV instant replay machine: Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects No.90

Edit The Independent 05 Dec 2015
(Pre-Super Bowl, it was the biggest game in the calendar.) Taking advantage of a week-long postponement due to the assassination of President Kennedy, Verna arranged for an Ampex 1000 tape machine ......

Defense Related Video Analytics, IVS & ISR Technologies & Global Market - 2015-2020

Edit PR Newswire 29 Oct 2015
LONDON, Oct ... According to our new report, the global industry revenues are forecasted to double by 2020 from their 2014 level ... - Technology maturity ... 3i-MIND, 3VR, 3xLOGIC, AAI Corporation, AAM Systems, ACTi Corporation, ADT Security Services, Adaptive Imaging Technologies, Agent Video Intelligence, AGT International, Aimetis, ALPHAOPEN, American Dynamics, Ampex Data Systems Corporation, Aralia System, AVCON Information Technology Co ... ....

See Where the Top 10 American Billionaires Were Born

Edit Huffington Post 22 Oct 2015
By Morgan Quinn, Contributor. Last month, Forbes released its annual list of the top U.S. billionaires. Admission to the top billionaires club was harder than ever with�the lowest net worth sitting at $1.7 billion, up $150 million from one year ago ... From Warren Buffett to Mark Zuckerberg, here's a rundown of where the top 10 U.S ... 1. Bill Gates. Birthplace ... 2 ... 3 ... Ellison got his big break in 1977 when he left his job at Ampex to start Oracle ... 4....
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