1980-1989
1983 Douglas Trumbull invents the Showscan process, which allows the screening of 70mm film at 60 frames-per-second. 1984 Electronic colouring by computer for black and white films to be shown on television.
1985 The introduction of multiscreen cinemas. 1986 Imax presents Imax 3D at the Vancouver Universal Exposition. |
| 1981 First digital camera, the Sony Mavica. >> Watch video digital photography.
1986 Creation of the TIFF format by the Aldus Corporation, which would later be transferred to Adobe. | 1983 The first home video cameras appear on the market, such as JVC's VHS-C, or the Sony Video 8 (1985). Around this time home movie formats go into decline.
| 1982 Sony develops the Betacam format, in the family of half-inch tapes. It is one of the first to incorporate in the same device a camera for capturing images and a video recorder, what is known as a "camcorder". 1984 The first 8mm video format appears, created by Eastman Kodak.
1985 Sony introduces the Handycam camera, one of the most successful 8mm cameras. 1986 Sony launches the Betacam SP format onto the market. Because of its quality it became standard use in television until the appearance of digital formats in the mid-1990s. The first digital video format is developed, Sony's D1, which recorded video and audio without compression. Due to its high cost it was not very successful. >> Watch video Hola Girona (fragment). Televisió de Girona. 1988 The first meeting is held of MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group) working on the standardization of digital video and audio compression systems such as MPEG-2 or MP3. | 1980 The Argentine Hugo Zuccarelli develops and patents holophonic sound, the basis of 3D sound effects. 1981 The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) protocol is defined, a standard for communication between electronic musical instruments, synthesizers and computer music. 1982 The first Compact Disc (CD) is marketed, developed jointly by Philips and Sony.
1986 DAT (Digital Audio Tape) appears. 1989 The first Sound Blaster sound card appears on the market, for many years the de facto standard for playing audio on a PC. |
