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Quote (Markito @ April 06 2005,9:57)

When I saw that video, it made me think of the bad decisions some people make in having engineers appear in a video instead of actors. Two words: boring and uncomfortable.

I also got a RCA TV video - it stars Sarnoff and Zworkian and is just as bad.  It is pretty neat though, it does show how tv works (a few things are off since they were trying to simplify it) and they talk about the next new thing - color TV!


History lesson: David Sarnoff was the president of RCA.  When he was younger, he was the person in the United States who who copied the ships passenger list of the Titanic  as it was sinking (via morse code).
Vladamir Zworkian (I think I spelled his name right) basically developed the TV system that we know today - the iconoscope and kinescope.

[dr galaga]

After the weekend I'm going to pull this video so I have room for the second installment - better watch it while you can!