Please join us on Oct. 8th at 7:00PM EDT for a fascinating historical and technical presentation of
“First-Hand: Bing Crosby and the Recording Revolution”
The DVRA welcomes in-person, IEEE Life Member Robert R. Phillips, an engineer with Bing Crosby Enterprise’s audio and videotape development team as he looks back on the 1950s working directly alongside Chief Engineer Jack Mullin and legendary American entertainer Bing Crosby.
Inspired and motivated by Bing’s insistence on top-tier production quality along with his substantial financial backing, Mr. Phillips was there to help bring about the technological leap from fragile transcription discs to the first U.S. network TV broadcast sourced from magnetic tape.
Mr. Phillips worked with the Bing Crosby Enterprises team, in collaboration with Ampex Co. to push the boundaries of magnetic tape recording technology from early prototypes to the wideband-mutli-track systems that became the standard in the entertainment and television broadcast industry, prior to the move to digital formats and workflows.
Magnetic tape remains important as large media organizations use ‘Linear Tape Open’ LTO data tape not for recording shows but for deep offline storage – an area spearheaded by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate that continues to grow.
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