Ampex machine's high price tag. Ampex sold only about 50 or 60 ATR-124 machines, and withdrew from the professional audio tape recorder market entirely in 1983. By the 1990s, Ampex focused more on video recorders, instrumentation recorders, and data recorders. In 1991, Ampex sold their professional audio recorder line to Sprague Magnetics. The Ampex Recording Media Corporation spun off in 1995 as Quantegy Inc.; that company has ceased producing recording tape. Starting in the early 1950s, RCA, Bing Crosby and others tried to record analog video on very fast-moving magnetic tape. As early as 1952, Ampex developed prototype video tape recorders
2000s in video gaming from video game to film doesn't always succeed. The 2000s however began to show promise in the profitability and success of making video game-based films.Opening in 2001, "" became the highest-grossing video game adaptation with over a US$274 million box office performance. "Tomb Raider" held that title for nearly a decade. Other adaptations in the 2000s included the popular "Resident Evil" saga, "Silent Hill", "Max Payne", "Hitman", "Alone in the Dark", "DOOM", "House of the Dead", and "". The 2000s was also the first decade that the medium has significantly affected classical music. Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall had a