International Video Corporation
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International Video Corporation, or IVC, was a California
company that manufactured several models of low to middle-end videotape recorders, or VTRs, for industrial and professional use. Their products were quite popular in the industrial and institutional markets.
format, but using helical scan
ning for the recording & playback of the video tracks (as opposed to 2" Quadruplex's transverse scanning). The 9000 was used quite frequently for the production of most popular television series throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as it was capable of higher quality through many more generations than other available products. However, the leftover R & D costs from the development of the 9000 left IVC with having to go out of business by the late 1980s.
In 1979, the IVC-1010, a 1 inch VTR, was introduced. It was capable of recording a 10 MHz bandwidth, designed for medical and scientific markets.
Modified IVC model 826P VTRs were also used as the transport
for Decca Records
' digital audio recording & mastering system of their own design starting in the late 1970s, one of the first systems introduced for recording digital audio.
Besides VTRs, IVC also manufactured other types of video equipment, such as studio video camera
s. They also produced modified video recorders for use in medical and data storage applications.
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
company that manufactured several models of low to middle-end videotape recorders, or VTRs, for industrial and professional use. Their products were quite popular in the industrial and institutional markets.
IVC 800 series 1 Inch VTR
IVC 800 series 1 Inch VTR was very popular. 800 series are reel to reel helical 'mid band' color portable TVR using 1 inch/25mm tape running at 17.2 cm per second/6.77 inches/second.IVC 9000
One of their last products before their end as a company was the legendary IVC model 9000 VTR, considered by some to be one of the best analog VTRs made. It used 2" tape, much like the 2" Quadruplex2 inch Quadruplex videotape
2-inch quadruplex videotape was the first practical and commercially successful analog recording videotape format. It was developed and released for the broadcast television industry in 1956 by Ampex, an American company based in Redwood City, California...
format, but using helical scan
Helical scan
Helical scan is a method of recording high bandwidth signals onto magnetic tape. It is used in reel-to-reel video tape recorders, video cassette recorders, digital audio tape recorders, and some computer tape drives....
ning for the recording & playback of the video tracks (as opposed to 2" Quadruplex's transverse scanning). The 9000 was used quite frequently for the production of most popular television series throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as it was capable of higher quality through many more generations than other available products. However, the leftover R & D costs from the development of the 9000 left IVC with having to go out of business by the late 1980s.
In 1979, the IVC-1010, a 1 inch VTR, was introduced. It was capable of recording a 10 MHz bandwidth, designed for medical and scientific markets.
Modified IVC model 826P VTRs were also used as the transport
Transport (recording)
A transport is a device that handles a particular physical storage medium itself, and extracts or records the information to and from the medium, to an outboard set of processing electronics that the transport is connected to.A transport houses no electronics itself for encoding and decoding the...
for Decca Records
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
' digital audio recording & mastering system of their own design starting in the late 1970s, one of the first systems introduced for recording digital audio.
Besides VTRs, IVC also manufactured other types of video equipment, such as studio video camera
Video camera
A video camera is a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition, initially developed by the television industry but now common in other applications as well. The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird, based on the electromechanical Nipkow disk and used by the BBC in...
s. They also produced modified video recorders for use in medical and data storage applications.