The History of Television, 1942 to 2000McFarland, 2003 - 309 páginas Albert Abramson published (with McFarland) in 1987 a landmark volume titled The History of Television, 1880-1941 (massive...research--Library Journal; voluminous documentation--Choice; many striking old photos--The TV Collector). At last he has produced the follow-up volume; the reader may be assured there is no other book in any language that is remotely comparable to it. Together, these two volumes provide the definitive technical history of the medium. Upon the development in the mid-1940s of new cameras and picture tubes that made commercial television possible worldwide, the medium rose rapidly to prominence. Perhaps even more important was the invention of the video tape recorder in 1956, allowing editing, re-shooting and rebroadcasting. This second volume, 1942 to 2000 covers these significant developments and much more. Chapters are devoted to television during World War II and the postwar era, the development of color television, Ampex Corporation's contributions, television in Europe, the change from helical to high band technology, solid state cameras, the television coverage of Apollo II, the rise of electronic journalism, television entering the studios, the introduction of the camcorder, the demise of RCA at the hands of GE, the domination of Sony and Matsushita, and the future of television in e-cinema and the 1080 P24 format. The book is heavily illustrated (as is the first volume). |
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April audio August Betacam Betamax black-and-white Broadcast Engineering Broadcast Management/Engineering Broadcasting & Cable camera tube cassette channel claimed color camera color system color television color TV component convention corder cost David Sarnoff December demonstration developed device disc Dolby editing Electric electronic equipment format Ginsburg half-inch HDTV head helical helical scan helical-scan high-band high-definition Hitachi Ikegami image orthicon inches industry January Jour July June kinescope Labs lines machine magnetic March Matsushita motion picture November NTSC October one-inch operation Panasonic patent Philips playback Plumbicon portable pounds production radio Ray Dolby RCA's reel reported resolution Roizen Royal Television Society scan screen SECAM September showed signal SMPTE Sony Sony's speed standard studio tape recorder tele tion track TV camera U-matic unit video recorder videotape recorder Vidicon viewfinder Wireless World York Zworykin
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Página 302 - Image Gradation, Graininess and Sharpness in Television and Motion Picture Systems Part I, Image Structure and Transfer Characteristics; Part II, The Grain Structure of Motion Picture Images; Part III, The Grain Structure of Television Images.
Página 304 - Brown, And Part of Which I Was: Recollections of a Research Engineer (Angus Cupar Publishers, Princeton, NJ, 1979).
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Mass Communication Education Michael D. Murray,Roy L. Moore No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2003 |