Word: video
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with wonder that I realized that I really knew nothing more about him then than I had in second grade. And from the newscasts it was obvious that the press didn't know a great deal more. They had miles of video-tape and films to document what he had done, but none of them seemed to have a very good idea of just who he had been. He had been the rarest of public figures, the man who honestly wished to keep his private life private--and succeeded...
...hold the rein, dear, on my reindeer, dear?/It never rains, it only snows with you."), and Buckman delivers them with such soupy sincerity that you have to restrain yourself from joining in. He also does a striptease and participates in an "action-packed wrestling match on slow-motion video tape," two bits that defy rational description or analysis...
...research for CBS Labs. Goldmark built the world's first practical color TV system in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948. His latest discovery may well touch off an even greater electronic convulsion. In Manhattan last week, he displayed the first operating model of Electronic Video Recording (EVR), a new system that transforms an ordinary TV set into a movie screen on which a viewer can play a series of films at any time he wishes as easily as he could play a phonograph record...
...over-zealous patrolmen. A telephone strike, which many media people claimed was sustained to hamper news coverage of the convention, had crippled communications around the city. One vital consequence was that there could be no live coverage of events outside the convention itself. Everything NBC aired had to be video-taped and rushed back to tre network control booth in the amphitheatre...
Fade Out. The largest independent U.S.. tube manufacturer, National Video suffered the classic one-product-company disaster. Seizing on glowing industry predictions of a surge in color TV sales, Cole decided to phase out production of black-and-white tubes, on which he was losing money, and switch to color. In 1965, he floated a $12,095,000 stock issue to bankroll expansion. Orders for color tubes from Motorola, Admiral and other set makers poured in, rocketing 1966 sales to $89 million. Profits reached $7,300,000 compared with the previous year...