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1/4 inch Akai is a portable Helical scan EIA and CCIR analog recording VTR. Akai 1/4 inch VTR had two video record heads on the scanner. The units had an optional RF modulator to play back to a TV set as well as a detachable Video monitor. Akai Electric LTD VTR plant was in Tokyo Japan. Early B&W models - Akai model # VTS-100 came out in 1967 it was a B&W portable VTR with a one tube camera.
- The next models VTS-110 and VTS-120 had much the same specs:
- S/N >40 db
- Playback about 200-lines of Image resolution
- Capstan Tape speed (EIA) 11.25 inches a second (20 min reel) / (CCIR) 23.85 cm/s (24 min reel)
- VTR Weight 11 lb.
Camera Specs: In fact Akai produce two kinds of black and white VTR using 1/4 inches tape. Portables with open reel of 13 cm diameter (VT100/110/120) and only one stationary model with 21 cm open reel called VT700. The model shown here X500VT was sold only in Japan and USA in very few quantity. Color model VTR Specs: Camera Specs: - Camera NTSC, PAL and SECAM:
- S/N >40 db
- One 2/3" Vidicon
- One Chroma Tube, an Akai dissector tube
- 1.5" VF - Viewfinder
- Lens: 6x - (1.5 to 75mm)
- 300-lines of resolution
- To use without the VTR, CCU-150 powered the camera with 12v DC.
- CCU-150 had the RF output and Genlock sync in.
- Weight 5.76 lb.
- Size 3.5"x9.3"x13.2"
- Microphone audio, 600 ohms
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