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It was long-winded. However, the intersection of raw technology, consumer product manufacturing and distribution, show business, and government regulation make
by vibrolax 7y ago
It was long-winded. However, the intersection of raw technology, consumer product manufacturing and distribution, show business, and government regulation makes for a complicated story.
I can't think of anything in the modern era as kludgy as mechanical sequential color TV systems making it into 'production'.
- lucas_membrane 7y agoRecirculating ball steering? In the world of color, remember ansi.sys ? That was about 40 years after NTSC. Imagine how well color TV would have worked if the color information had been sent by embedded escape codes. In the over-the-air broadcasting world, there are all those sub-carriers riding on just about all the FM signals making background monkey-chatter for each other. And before multiplexing by frequency came along, there were those center-tap methods of sending three signals on two lines, seven signals on four lines (did anyone ever get it to work for fifteen signals on eight lines)?