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Little Marvel and Other RCA Achievements

(RCA)
The manufacturer of video equipment - cameras and recorders, and after its supervisors are convinced that the consumer desires miniature and low-complexity devices, it offers its latest cameras and video recorders on this level, especially the Little Wonder. .

(RCA) announced that it has a plan to enter the market with a camera-recorder model, which accommodates a two-hour recording period, based on the thin tape that it seeks to develop. The period of preparations and work on this device lasted for several years.

RCA has recently introduced a color video camera, which weighs about one kilogram and fits in the palm of your hand, knowing that it includes many advantages, including a power zoom lens, a fixed built-in microphone, an electronic viewfinder, and fast return of scenes with a fixed automatic white balance that persists in adapting to achieve color balance. This new camera, dubbed Marvel
Small,, is the first solid camera sold to the consumer for less than $ 1000 in America.

One of the company's senior officials considers that the consumer's interest in scale and complexity in the first place is what made the company take into account providing models free of complexity and with small measurements.
Hence, the new small wonder camera, which was known as the (20 CKCO) model, will be distinguished despite its small size, which does not exceed five and a half inches in height and eight and a half inches in length. In addition to its light weight, an achievement equivalent to the achievement of the common (RCA) deluxe camera, which was sold for half the price of this mini camera - 2000 dollars, when it was released to the market, while the price of (20 CKCo) as we mentioned is less than half, specifically 995 dollars.

Expectations

RCA expects an active sales movement this year in the various industrial fields that it advances. The company's electronics industry includes a project to sell 14.5 million colored receivers in 1984. This total represents a significant increase of nearly three million devices compared to what was sold two years ago. It is expected that sales of video cassette recorders will exceed 5.5 million units for this year, after they were 4.1 million in 1983, and this number is double what was sold in 1982.
Dr. Donahue, a senior official in the company, attributes this rise to the fact that the continued introduction of new products to the market has aroused the consumer's appetite. Hence, the company will be represented by more new and distinctive productions in 1984 compared to any other year in the company's history. Hence, the first product was (20 CKCO)
presented at a press conference.

And based on the increase in consumer interest in receivers with a large screen, for table models (3 by 25 inches). It is possible that the percentage of sales of these models will increase by 62 percent, and according to the desire for remote control facilities (*), 40 percent of the color devices sold this year will include On the remote control feature, after the percentage reached 25 percent in 1980, the video-disc category will be influenced by its recent growth as a more recent product, as the industry is expected for 1984 sales to reach half a million units, an increase of 67 percent from the sales that were counted in 1983 and despite all the decline that It happened and happens in the regular TV market - black and white - the sales steps of (RCA) maintain its sales of it, which is 5.3 million units per year.One of the important accessories for the video cassette recorder is the color video camera, whose sales (RCA) expects to reach 600 thousand units for the year 84, an increase of 36 percent over the total of 1984. Finally, Dr. Donahue mentions that color television is no longer just a means of reception, viewing, and recordings, but also a means of playing video games and serving as a receiving and transmitting device for information. T of the computer for many.

Video recorder - stereo

(RCA) introduces a new video cassette recorder - as the first video recorder (VCR) by it that features VIIS (Hi-Fi) stereo sound and will go on sale this year. It is a table model (550 VKT) that is fed from the front and has three heads. Video with two additional heads for audio recording (*) and reverse playback (*).

The model (550 VKT) is completely different from the video models and will add a new dimension to the interest of traditional video playback, as its supervisors confirm and add that the exceptional capabilities of (VIIS Hi-Fi) sound will attract more consumers to the market of video recording devices in addition to that this device is distinguished With a longer recording period of up to eight hours

The device also features a dynamic range of more than 80 (dB), noting that normal devices do not exceed 46 (dB). This is in addition to a stable response to frequencies from 20 to 20,000 (HZ) and an almost complete absence of discrepancies in sound and image.
To further improve the overall sound quality, the VHS Hi-Fi system in the RCA device model (550 VKT) uses a new audio reduction system called (PNR) (Peak Noise) or (Reduction).
The end result is a video device that delivers dramatic audio results.

The VKT 550 also features six programs, two-week timer, IR remote control for all functions, 105-channel power, special effect recording such as stop-and-go, frame zoom, double speed, forward and backward image search, etc.