2006

The MiniR 700 Solid-State Recorder is Mini in size, but Mega in functionality and performance.

2005

The DSRs 400J Solid State Recording System is designed specifically for airborne applications requiring high data rate and storage capacity in a small, rugged and lightweight package.

2005

The DSRs 400B Solid State Recording System is designed specifically for airborne applications requiring high data rate and storage capacity in a small, rugged and lightweight package.

2005

The AMux 600 is a modular and configurable multiplexer that works with both DSRs 400 and miniR 700 Data Recorders.

2005

The DSRs 440 Solid State Recording System is designed specifically for airborne applications requiring high data rate and storage capacity in a small, rugged and lightweight package.

2004

The DSRs 410 Playback Ground Station is designed to download data collected on Ampex DSRs Airborne Recorders.

2003

The DSRs 420 Rackmount Recorder / Download Station is designed to operate as a ground based instrumentation recorder or to download data collected on Ampex DSRs Airborne Recorders.

2001

Ampex Introduces the DDRs 400 Instrumentation Disk Recorder.

2000

Ampex Introduces Quad Density DST Products. Continuing to push the limits of magnetic recording, Ampex introduces Quad density DST products. 

1999

Ampex introduces scalability to the DST 712 library system, allowing multiple DST 712 cabinets to be connected via a simple cartridge pass through mechanism. Multiple libraries can be configured for almost unlimited capacity.

1998

Fox Television Network becomes the first network to store its primetime television programs as data files on DST media and library systems.

1997

Ampex introduces the DST 712 Automated Cartridge Library System capable of storing up to 5.8 terabytes with an aggregate data transfer rate of up to 40MB/sec.

1996

Ampex introduces the new double density DST data storage product line, offering the highest capacity data storage system in the industry. The DST 812 robotic library can now store 12.8 terabytes of data, the entire Library of Congress, in 21 square feet of floor space.

1995

Ampex introduces the DISTM 120i and DIS 160i dual port, data/instrumentation recorders, making it possible for the first time to capture real time instrumentation data and then utilize the same recorder to process the data in a computer environment through its second port using SCSI-2 protocol.

1994

Ampex wins a Monitor Award for outstanding technical achievement from the International Teleproduction Society for the DCT 700d Digital Tape Drive.

1992

Ampex introduces DCT, the first digital component post production system using image compression technology to produce unsurpassed quality images. The system includes the finest videotape recorder ever made, The DCT 1700d.

Ampex introduces DST, high-performance computer mass storage products able to store half the Library of Congress in 21 square feet of floor space.

1991

Ampex obtains patent for keepered media, which adds a soft magnetic layer to magnetic recording media, increasing the resulting recording capacity.

1990

Ampex wins an Emmy for its ACR 225 Commercial Spot Player.

1989

Ampex wins an Emmy for its development of D-2 video recording technology.

1988

Ampex introduces D-2, the first composite digital video recording format.

1987

Ampex receives a Monitor Award for outstanding technical achievement from the International Teleproduction Society for the ZeusTM Advanced Video Processor.

1986

Ampex wins two Emmy awards: one for its ZeusTM Advanced Video Processor, and another for the VPR-3 Videotape Recorder.

1984

Ampex wins an Emmy for the VPR-5, the first helical scan portable VTR.

Ampex receives a Monitor Award for outstanding technical achievement from the International Teleproduction Society for the VPR-5, the first helical scan portable VTR.

1983

Ampex introduces the DCRS digital cassette recorder, offering compact cassette storage with the equivalent of 16 digital or 8 DDR instrumentation reels on one cassette.

Partial-response maximum-likelihood (PRML) data decoding technology has its first use in Ampex's DCRsiTM recorders. This technology is now commonly used in high performance computer disk drives and other high density magnetic data storage devices.

Ampex wins an Emmy for its ADO® Digital Effects System.

The ADO® Digital Effects System also receives a Monitor Award for outstanding technical achievement from the International Teleproduction Society.

1981

Ampex introduces ADO, which creates digital special effects, allowing rotation and perspective of video images, changing forever the way television material will be manipulated and created.

Ampex wins an Emmy for its ESSTM Still Store.

1978

The Ampex Video Art (AVATM) video graphics system is used by artist Leroy Nieman on air during Super Bowl XII. AVA, the first video paint system, allows the graphic artist, using an electronic pen, to illustrate in a new medium, video. This innovation paved the way for today's high quality electronic graphics, such as those used in video games.

Ampex's helical scan, 1-inch videotape recorder, the Type C VPR-2 (the successor to the VPR-1, introduced in 1976), becomes the industry standard for video recording.

Ampex wins two Emmy awards: one for Type C format development and one for the company's AST® Video Tracking system

1977

Ampex introduces the AST® process, the first automated scan tracking for variable speed effects, making slow motion possible directly from tape for the first time.

Ampex introduces Electronic Still Store (ESS), which allows producers to store digital video images for later editing and broadcast.

Ampex introduces the HBR-3000, the first high-bit rate, high density magnetic recorder for logging and storage of electromagnetic data.

1976

Ampex introduces the VPR-1, helical scan, Type C, 1-inch, videotape recorder. With it comes AST, the first automated scan tracking for variable speed effects, making slow motion possible directly from tape for the first time. The VPR-1’s successor, the VPR-2 (1978), becomes the industry standard for video recording.

1974

Ampex introduces the AVR-2, the first modular quadraplex recorder/reproducer for professional broadcasters. It requires one-half to one-third the operating space required by other quad machines

1972

The first TBM delivered reaches a never-before-achieved 3 trillion bit capacity.

1970

Ampex introduces the ACR-25, the first automatic robotic library system for the recording and playback of television commercials.

Ampex introduces TBM (TeraBit Memory), a 2-inch transverse tape-based on-line digital storage system for high-performance computing applications.

1969

Ampex introduces Videofile, still in use today at Scotland Yard for the electronic storage and retrieval of fingerprints.

1968

Ampex invents magneto-resistive (MR) heads, now used in advanced computer disk drives.

1967

ABC uses the Ampex HS-100 disc recorder for playback of slow-motion downhill skiing on World Series of Skiing in Vail, Colorado. Thus begins the use of instant replay and slow motion in sporting events.

The Ampex Computer Products Company introduces the RG memory. It is a medium capacity memory with an access time of 350 nanoseconds (less than half of one millionth of a second) and expandable from medium to very large capacity (up to 5,000,000 bits) by adding memory modules.

The introduction of the Ampex VR-3000 revolutionizes video recording -- its briefcase size makes it the first truly portable VTR. It is used at the ‘68 Summer Olympics in Mexico City to follow the world’s cross-country runners for the first time ever.

Ampex wins an Emmy for its VR-2000 color VTR.

1964

Ampex introduces the VR-2000 high band videotape recorder, the first ever to be capable of color fidelity required for high quality color broadcasting.

1963

Ampex introduces EDITEC, electronic video editing, allowing broadcast television editors frame-by-frame recording control, simplifying tape editing and the ability to make animation effects possible. This was the basis for all subsequent editing systems.

Ampex introduces a new computer peripheral digital tape transport, the TM-7. Its design far surpasses previous tape drives, using 80 percent fewer parts and completely eliminating pinch rollers and brake cylinders.

1961

Helical scan recording is invented by Ampex -- the technology behind the worldwide consumer video revolution, and is used in all home VTRs today.

1960

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents Ampex with an Oscar for technical achievement.

1959

The famous Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate" takes place at the Moscow Trade Fair, and is captured on an Ampex videotape recorder.

1958

NASA selects Ampex data recorders and magnetic tape, used for virtually all U.S. space missions since.

1957

Ampex wins an Emmy award for VTR development.

1956

The Ampex VRX-1000 (later renamed the Mark IV) videotape recorder is introduced on March 14, 1956, at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters in Chicago. This is the first practical videotape recorder and is hailed as a major technological breakthrough.

CBS goes on air with the first videotape delayed broadcast, Douglas Edwards and The News, on November 30, 1956, from Los Angeles, California, using the Ampex Mark IV.

1954

Ampex introduces the first multi-track audio recorder derived from multi-track data recording technology.

Ampex introduces the first magnetic theater sound system, made for Todd/AO CinemaScope.

1950

Ampex introduces the first "dedicated" instrumentation recorder, Model 500, built for the U.S. Navy.

1948

American Broadcasting Company (ABC) uses an Ampex Model 200 audio recorder for the first ever U.S. tape delay radio broadcast of The Bing Crosby Show.

1944

Ampex Electric and Manufacturing Company is formed by Alexander M. Poniatoff in San Carlos, California.