Ken Bollinger founded TV Specialists, Inc. sitting in for a Television commercial. |
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- 1st in Utah to become an authorized Panasonic service/repair
center.
- 1st in Utah to become an authorized seller of Panasonic
products.
- 1st in Utah to show a home
video projector in the 1970s.
- TV
Specialists created the first home video recording system
to record two hours instead of one. Based on a modified 3/4'
u-matic VCR
- 1st in Utah to display home
video recorders (VCRs).
- Created "The Wizard" in
1985: The first single product digital effects system that
provided two channel A-B roll effects
with its own built-in mixing switcher and time base correlator.
- Created "Lumachrome" in
1987: The 1st modified professional video recorder to record
Y/C signal without changing formats
while maintaining VHS compatibility.
- Constructed one of the country's 1st High-Definition
television showrooms in 1989.
- 1st and largest
TV projection dealer in Utah, and one of the largest in
the United States.
- 1st in Utah to receive and record an over-the-air transmission
test of high-definition TV. (February 1999).
- TV Specialists supplied
the 2002 Winter
Olympic games with Panasonic A/V Equipment.
- TV
Specialists installed the new
display (largescreen) at
the Jon M. Hunstman Center at the University of Utah in the
summer
of 2002.
- 1st in Utah to show a 24
frames-per-second camcorder (Salt Lake City Film Festival, 2002.)
- The only authorized
dealer of JVC, Sony, and Panasonic Professional Products
in Utah.
- Has
been family owned and operated since 1953.
Additional archive photos here.
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 TV
Specialists, Inc. in 1977. Our second building located on
180 East 2100 South, SLC, UT, after its addition of the second
floor. |
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