Every now and then you see a piece of vintage gear that just stops you in your tracks. For me, it's this machine. It looks like something out of a 1950’s sci-fi movie like (“Forbidden Planet” comes to mind). So I did a little digging, and the real story is even cooler. This is the Ampex VR-3000, and it’s one of the most important and wildly impractical pieces of video gear that you’ll ever see, and it was instrumental in getting video production out of the studio.