He ironically died in 1977, the year VHS hit the market.

Nice alternate account, Ben.

@@Tornado1994and also VHS was ended in 2006.

Much of the programming captured on early videotape was lost precisely because the tapes could be erased and used over again. Very early use of Quadruplex (in the USA) was by networks that broadcast the news and similar shows live on their East Coast affiliates and then provided a feed for West Coast affiliates from the Quadruplex machine. It's probably just a "happy accident" that somebody misplaced the Edsel tape.

Betty White just becomes immortal at this point

@@Malkmusianful These comments aged badly. R.I.P Betty White :(

They cursed her@@goodiesguy

Got any missing episodes in your cupboard? Lol

And if that wasn't horrific enough, then pops up the Happy Hamster. All this video is missing are the Karaoke Neon Nightmare faces.

@@mightyfilm Or that music program guy from Prehistoric Television. Seriously, that is the scariest thing I've ever seen on this show.

Can I just say that the magnetophon was developed by the AEG company, not the nazi party, and development began years before the nazis came to power. There is no record of the political leanings of the engineers involved.

As it turns out, RCA's early color recording was a special format their labs created which was completely different from the official standard later developed. There's an interesting history of Ed Reitan who worked to recover Fred Astaire's 1st recorded special and in turn the WRC Dedication tape.

I'd think it would be possible to mount the tape on a jury-rigged machine and play it at slow speed. A little digital processing to play it back at faster speed, and you've got the content with a fraction of the headaches.

@@russellhltn1396 *jerry-rigged* 🤓. It's WWII slang for equipment that was just thrown together.

@@OofusTwillip Some call it "Jerry" but Wikipedia goes with "jury"

@@russellhltn1396 Wikipedia is edited by wrong people at times.

'Jerry-built' vs. 'Jury-rigged' vs. 'Jerry-rigged' Merriam Webster article under “commonly confused” While some will assert that jerry-rigged is an inferior sort of word to be avoided, it is in fact fully established and has been busy in the language for more than a century, describing any number of things organized or constructed in a crude or improvised way. Jury-rigged and jerry-built are somewhat older and not generally criticized, and have the added benefit of having corresponding verb forms. Jury-rigged is the best choice when the makeshift nature of the effort is to be emphasized rather than a shoddiness that results; the one who jury-rigs is merely doing what they can with the materials available. Jerry-built is most often applied when something has been made quickly and cheaply; the one who jerry-builds something builds it badly.

But, DVD's not dead. It's actually very much still alive. In fact, I recently bought a brand new, 1080P TV set with a DVD player. A BD player would have been a better fit, but they are still stamping new DVDs. The format really isn't dead until they stop mass producing the media. Vinyl and cassettes are just zombies that rose from the crave to haunt us.

Well, he had to have something to occupy his time when he wasn't beating his loved ones with sacks of oranges.

Yep, and all because he wanted to play golf at a reasonable time.

Big Crosby also produced Hogan's Hereos.

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He was a very shrewd investor and promoter of new technologies.

@@OofusTwillip that's something really good to know to think I mostly think of him mainly around Christmas time for his musics

if you look carefully you might see a little bit of upper lip there. *gasp*

@@singinglawnchair It's downright scandalous!!! He should arrested for such indecency!!!

He needs to wear a facemask! 😂

In 5 years were going to find out he's been doing all this without teeth.

I'd love to cover the Polavision, but have yet to find a working (or repairable) one. Already recorded-on cartridges aren't the easiest to come by either. Hopefully someday. There's so little pre-1977 HBO footage, it'd be incredibly hard to cover in a video. I think I've already used all the known, surviving/circulating 1973-76 material in past videos (which maybe adds up to one minute).

It took technology a long time between film based movie theaters and home TV sets. TV broadcasters relied on film technologies, stills and moving, well into the VTR days. Film was so much faster and cheaper to produce on. TV facilities had massive "film chains" with multiple slide and film projectors. Usually 3 film devices per "chain" (island) into a dedicated camera. A central set of mirrors allowed switching which film source's image hit the camera.

I used a TRT-1B in the late "60's, '70's. AWA the Ampex.

Working in a TV station back then, it could get quite boring. except break time on master control!

Total cougar. I would imagine the Mexican lady you mentioned would be the same. Hopefully I won't forget to Google her later.

@@millsyinnz Not quite, most of the times she played your stereotypical "granny". Only in a couple of movies she played a tomboyish granny or a smart-ass one.

Not quite. Bing "dabbled" with video unsuccessfully. He helped pioneer the audio recording industry by purchasing the first audio tape recorders made by Ampex...(they needed the $50k to get started.)

Don't overlook the fact that if those early engineers and technicians hadn't struggled through the endless problems involved in recording video, your laptop might not even exist....and wouldn't that be a crying shame.

That's me! Degree in Broadcast electronics w/ FCC 1st class license in the early '70's. went from working in TV stations to selling the stuff. Went from setting up RCA TRT-1B 3 rack quad machines and running manual Mater Control, to selling TV station transmitters, studio camera's, Satellite uplink trucks, and then into Jurassic Park level CGI systems. I sit here every day amazed at the Hi-Res image streaming to me for next to nothing compared to the grainy, fuzzy NTSC I started with in facilities costing $$$ Millions!

Back in the 90s, they used either U-Matic or Betacam. U-Matic was mostly used by news agencies though, since it was more portable than Betacam. Some other people also used Laserdisc iirc

I worked in a small local station around 2003. They used SVHS for field work and editing and transferred everything to Umatic for broadcast.

I sold the stuff back then. Until TBCs (Time Base Correctors) became available inexpensively, most tape formats were not allowed on the air because they did not meat FCC RS170 and later RS170A specs. 1"Type C and 2" quad were it. 3/4 Umatic and Sony 1" color were not. early on, a source had to be stable enough by itself to meet on air specs as processing equipment did not exist yet. The guy running "Master Control" would switch between all the independent sources in a TV station while in "Black" picture so you would not see your TV set roll when it locked to the next source. So film was used. 3/4 U-Matic was not legal to use until TBCs were invented (by Ampex) and became cheap enough to use. It is a "color under" system which dramatically reduces color bandwidth/resolution. And is so jittery as to not be usable on air. But a TBC can input each line at a time and create an electronically appropriate output. As memory got cheaper, they went from single line to multiple line to full frame w/Freeze and effects. Such as the famous Ampex ADO. The first device to manipulate a moving video image in 3D space. I sold them. 1/2" in Beta format became BetaCam. Using higher speeds than Beta to get full video bandwidth recording. But using R-Y, B-Y Chroma vectors instead of Broadcast spec I/Q. So VHS did MII which was I/Q and therefore directly broadcastable. But Sony owned the Broadcast market, so the FCC changed to allow R-Y, B-Y. The deathknell for tape in broadcast was Ampex D1 and Sony D2. I sold both. But digital storage was starting up. Digital disc arrays. Which yes I also sold. Abekas A53D effects w/ A62 digital disk recorder. I sold the first one outside of the Broadcast segment. And the EMC and AVID editing system came around. Now it's just apps on a phone.

Just watch for banding regardless of dropout. Skewing and scalloping.

That's not 'dropout' that's a head clog. Thumbnail on the heads time ! Scratching was fun - diagonal display of white dashes slanting left to right (in 4 rows?)

Can’t please ‘em all.