Restoring Baird's Image - IET Digital Library

Contents ix
Dating Miss Bolton 220
Gramovision 221
Major Radiovision - A Major Disappointment 223
A 'Sister' Disc to Major Radiovision 225
The BBC's 30-line Recording 225
Changing History? 226
9 Capturing the Vision 229
Television - the Ephemeral Medium 229
How far back? 230
Pre-War British Video Recording 231
The Early International Scene 232
Recording Methods 233
Tele-recording 234
Recording - from the Beginning 237
Magnetic Recording 240
The Beginnings of Magnetic Tape 241
Video: faster and higher 242
Ampex 243
The Development of the Practical Videotape Recorder 245
Quadruplex versus Helical-scanning 246
Helical Scanning Takes Off 248
VERA Lingers 249
Tape - the Fluid Medium and the Store House 251
Disc Technology 252
There is no time like the Present 254
Who wants to live forever? 255
The Explosion of Formats 255
Archiving Videotape 256
Dead Formats 257
The End of Media? 258
An Archive for the Future 259
Preserving Data 260
A Format for Survival 261
First and Last? 261
The Ultimate Archive 262
10 Revising History 265
Changing Views 265
Over-zealous Claims 266
British Television in Perspective 267
Shifts in Perception 269
The Evolution of Views 271
'Just a Few Lines' 272
A Digital Viewpoint on Television 274