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How Digital Video Came About
By Trevor | June 26, 2007
Digital video is a progression from the first origins of video recording.
Video tape recorders were first produced in 1951 and consisted of technology that could take in electric impulses and then transfer these on to magnetic tape.
The intervening years to 1956 saw the finalization of video tape recorders and their use for television purposes.
As the demands of television grew, so did the popularity of video devices.
It wasn’t long before big movie directors were looking at video to enable them to take advantage of the latest innovations that would help to make their films look better, brighter, and more professional than the competition.
The 1960s saw the race for space and the amazing advances in technology, as is so often the case with space technology, it also produced something very beneficial for civilian life, digital imaging!
In 1972 Texas instruments produced its first, rather bulky, no film camera that operated on the digital principle. At this stage however, this was not something for the average person due to the prohibitive cost..
1981 was the year when Sony first introduced its offering to the masses, and they loved it! It operated on the idea that a video camera that would be able to take individual frames of an event, rather than simply just photos.
From then on, new innovations were to be had almost every year or two, and it is not surprising that for such a long time the technology was outdated almost the moment you picked it off the store shelf.
Thinking about it though, not much has changed in that respect now.
Every year brings a newer, better, and also smaller product to the market that eager consumers are only too happy to purchase.
As you can probably see, the history of digital video is directly tied to the demand of those who were most intimately involved in filmmaking, namely directors.
As ever it is hard to see what new technology is around the corner.
While it may seem that there is precious little that can be done to improve upon digital video technology, it does stand to reason that the next generation of digital video devices is only a season away from the store shelves.
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