TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION

By: Sierra Self

PHONOVISION

John Logie Baird made the first VideoDiscs in 1927

http://www.cedmagic.com/history/baird-phonovision.html

PHONOVISION

Baird named his VideoDisc system Phonovision

PHONOVISION

Earliest video format

2” Quadruplex

Invented in 1956, this professional only format lasted well into the 80's.

http://www.guyspiller.com/vintagevideotapeservices.html

2” Quadruplex

Developed by Ampex

Sony EV Format CLP-1B

Sony Introduced this format in 1964 with the release of the EV-200. It was the first "portable" machine intended for general use.

http://www.videointerchange.com/sony_ev_1inch.htm

Sony EV Format CLP-1B

The EV-200 was a monochrome machine only, but later models in the EV-200 and 300 series were color capable by use of an external color adapter. 

Capacitance Electronic isc

A video disc format developed by RCA that was released in 1981 under the brand name "SelectaVision". 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CapacitanceElectronicDisc

Capacitance Electronic Disc

RCA first developed the CED format in 1964 as a way to reproduce video similar to phonograph records. 

VHS

From the 1980s through most of the 1990s, the Video Home System (VHS) dominated the theater of video recording and video watching.  

http://mroche.umwblogs.org/

VHS

Developed by RCA

Laserdisc

A laserdisc is a 12-inch platter capable of 425 lines of NTSC resolution.

http://www.mindspring.com/~laserdisc-forever/prologue.htm

Laserdisc

Laserdisc is a dramatic improvement over videotape, yet somehow it never caught on beyond a small niche of consumers. 

Laserdisc

Early DVD format

DVD

DVD as an industry standard was announced in November 1995 and backed by major players in the CE, IT and movie industry

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldvd.htm

DVD

Used for home video

Blue-Ray Disc

Released to public in 2006 Invented by BDA (Blu-Ray Disc

Association) http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/

technology-explained-blurays-replacement-dvd/

Blue-Ray Disc

Invented by BDA (Blu-Ray Disc Association)

Blue-Ray Disc

Holds about 25GB

First Reality TV Show

"TV Guide" named the first reality TV show as "An American Family," a 12-episode documentary that aired on PBS in 1973.

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/first-reality-show