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Originally Posted by colortrakker
You mean this? Someone at RCA must have really loved Elvis to give him an experimental format tape recorder.
The Selectavision name really got around at RCA. They used it first for a 1969 holographic tape format that never came out of experimental phase, then this magnetic tape, then CED (which is probably what Bobby Brady was thinking about), and finally regular VHS.
Btw, am I seeing a second set on top of the G2000 in the bottom pic? |
reminding me of how advanced things were.
It would be very interesting to hear from somone who used one of those in the '74 field test mentioned. 200 machines were used by regular consumers only in Indiana? I met someone who worked at an RCA factory and I will ask them to try to remember if they heard of this.
I do believe the executives at RCA would have been a huge Elvis fans if only for the fact he was made much money for them but I suspect many would have loved to use that machine as a way to get to meet him. More people than you may think would have done most anything just to get to meet him.
Could somebody help us figure out if Elvis' videotape machine was the experimental '73 model or the newer one offered to the public.
I could be wrong but I thought I heard RCA did not offer the public a videotape machine that would have looked like a Selectavision until '78 after Elvis passed.
I know the U-matic was out by '72 but it is much larger and does not look like a Selectavision.