EVR Demonstration on Film (1967)

that's it Olli fine what you see here is a standard television receiver exactly like you have in your home of business however there is a complete difference because you are about to view a communications technique that will do many startling things such as this and this and yes even this hi I'm Bob Hill representing Columbia Broadcasting systems electronic video recording division I want to thank you for taking time out from your busy schedule to view EVR it gives me a particular pleasure to bring to you this new communication system this particular system has captured the imagination of everyone who has seen it performed there are three basic components that go to make up EVR the EVR cartridge which are hold here in my hand the Evi player and a standard home television receiver and in that order I would like to give you a brief summary as to how they all mesh together to make CBS EBR the communications system that it is let's start first if I may with the cartridge the EVR cartridge is very small and compact it is seven inches in diameter two-thirds of an inch thick and contains 750 feet of film there are a hundred and eighty thousand individual picture frames here on this film format that I'm directing your attention to EVR is broken down into two channels a channel a and a channel B both of these channels contain 25 minutes of running time therefore you have 50 minutes of playing time on to monochrome channels 25 minutes on each track now there are no sprocket holes in the EVR format unlike other films which prolongs the life of the product there is a magnetic sound stripe down the perimeter of the film on both tracks you can program independently each channel if one desired now in our processing facilities in Rockland New Jersey we can accept the following formats for conversion to easy our 35 millimeter 16 millimeter video tape 1 inch and video tape 2 inch all can be converted to one communications medium and that being EVR now why don't we move over to the player and see the rest of our system the Evi player is compact and completely portable built under the lid of the player itself is a handle for portability located on the right hand side of the Evi player is a simple control panel in operating the Evi player one simply lifts up the lid of the player places the cartridge over the spindle and locks it in place it's done automatically you press the play button and you transmit a signal to the television receiver you noticed how simple it was to load the product into the player itself four threads automatically through the flight the viewing EVR in a well-lit room and examine if you will the high-resolution TV image on the screen itself your faces reporter and her future understand dr. Phoebe are in the installation of this youth system itself is extremely simple all one needs is a thin dime so you have a lead that comes out of the back of the II VI player that goes direct to the antenna terminals of any standard television receiver and I'm sure you recall my doing it earlier in the program now EVR can be used in a one-to-one situation by that I mean one II VI player to one television receiver or you can use this II VI player for five television receivers ten or twenty or for that matter you can feed this into a standard CATV and master antenna distribution system now let's take a look at some of the real unique features of EVR and makes it one of the most exciting communication systems that there is today first of all the still frame capability I have selected one of the hundred and eighty thousand frames that I showed you earlier in our film format and I have selected that particular frame at my own election now built into the face of the player itself is a crawl mechanism that allows us the freedom to be able to go frame-by-frame through the entire cartridge a hundred and eighty thousand frames now think if you will promote it this could be a page in the book a diagram a bit of information for example if you were moving too quickly in a classroom situation or a teaching situation of any type you could go in reverse or you can scroll as fast as one desired so what I'm pointing out to you here is the storage capability of an e VI cartridge is almost limitless because you've got a hundred and eighty thousand bits of information contained in a small seven-inch cartridge now not only can we go frame by frame but we can go from track to track from one channel to the next channel and if you recall earlier we showed you mission impossible which you're viewing now and then we showed you Robert Frost on another track very slowly I will go to the other track and show you Robert Frost and I mentioned if you recall that you could program independently as you're viewing here we have Robert Frost on one track and we have Mission Impossible on another track but this could be is an English program and this could be French this could be the question this could be your answer this could be your 1969 line of automobiles and here is just 1970 line complete flexibility from track to track you can activate the player and continue on the other track of one desires the user where the thought comes in the force comes in the wild for my friendship lately in Washington has been very strange to matchbook blundered in tow and I am very much I am now going to play silly players in the spot mode and doing this so I can explain the very next feature with the e VR system and that's the ability of to seek out other information further into the cartridge built into the player is a fast forward and a fast reverse by pressing the fast-forward button I activate the player you will see nothing on the television screen but I will seek out additional information or programming material whatever the case might be I then stop the player activate the machine sensory stuff and we're well into the CAPTCHA contiguity shade that fun is that right you know we thought that they're going to change to the bus you can not only go forward but you can go in Reverse so at your own election you can recall as much information as you desire as frequently as you desire and at your own pace well the player is in motion if one desired you can still go from track to track this is the nodos handwriting why would you plan something like that without letting one of us know my husband with Zoe I'm going to press the stop button for one moment to make another point and to show you another feature when the player is in the still mode there's absolutely no audio whatsoever let me do it and show you again the importance of this feature in a teaching situation during little romantic this allows you the teacher the instructor the sales manager or whomever the opportunity to interject one's own personality and bring that subject forth I might add and you probably already noticed this EVR is completely silent you are not competing with a 16-millimeter projector or any other type of mechanical device nor am i lowering the house lights was setting up a 40 by 40 screen you're viewing a program on a television receiver that's common to everyone but is it matter why he did it what could work into our clients better in order to rewind our programming material you never have to touch the product you simply press the stop button and the rewind button it is all done automatically within the Evi player we simply open up the lid reach in to the well and remove the Evo cartridge which was the program that you were just feeling completely sealed and ready for library use EVR offers you the complete freedom of choice doing what you want when you want it and as often as you like I thank you and hope you've enjoyed our demonstration of EDR a development of the columbia broadcasting systems laboratories