Word: playbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year CBS Laboratories introduced its own playback system, called Electronic Video Recording (EVR). But the RCA version-which works through a combination of laser beams and holography-would cost the consumer only half as much. The model RCA demonstrated last week, however, was still a primitive prototype with grainy picture, color distortion and no sound...
...weeks after the Mariner pictures were transmitted, scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were also getting a far clearer look at the red planet itself. In the first fast playback of the 200 TV images radioed by the two probes, they saw a very rough and lunar-like surface. But after considerable electronic enhancement of the pictures, a slow process that increases contrasts and eliminates random "noise" in the radio signals, the scientists have now produced a portfolio of photographs that show three distinctly different types of Martian topography. Besides cratered regions, there are huge, flat, featureless areas...
...PLAYBACK: THE APPLETREE THEATER (Verve-Forecast). Never let it be said that the Boylan brothers, John, 26, and Terence, 21, lack a sense of humor. This cycle of rock songs is an explosion of surprises, blending fey whimsy with just plain loony-bin clowning. A country corn put-on called I Been Spending Too Much Money at the Fair is a hilarious frontal attack on the Nashville sound...
...Tune in on communication among fish as well as on transmissions from distant galaxies, and hear, on immediate playback, the sound of their own voices as they would have been recorded on equipment available in 1900, 1920 and today...
...noninstrumental sounds-and create a few that are not so well known. It does not have all the range and flexibility of those synthesizers, but it does have one advantage. They normally put their sounds onto tape, which is then brought into the concert hall and fed into a playback machine. The Syn-Ket eliminates the need for this, since it is played like an instrument...