Technological Evolution in the 50 Years of British Broadcasting

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 81, No. 11, pp. 837–840
Abstract: British broadcasting celebrates its 50th Anniversary on November 14th 1972: the 50 years of BBC history has seen very great technological change. From the early medium-wave transmitters with primitive studio apparatus, through the introduction of sound-recording facilities, the opening of the 405-line television service in 1936 and the War years with their great impetus to overseas broadcasting, innovation has continued at an ever-increasing pace. Since the war, film kinescope recording of television, line-standards conversion, FM sound broadcasting, videotape recording, the change to 625-line standard, introduction of color, field-store standards conversion, use of “sound-in-syncs,” PCM stereo distribution and the use of negative color film direct on-air — these are some of the landmarks of technical progress. There still remains, however, plenty of scope for inventiveness on the part of broadcasting engineers.
Publication Date: 1972-11-01
DOI: 10.5594/J08196
ISSN: Print: 0361-4573
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J08196
Author(s): C. B. B. WoodEngineering Information Dept., British Broadcasting Corp., Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA, England
Copyright: © 1972 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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Briggs Asa , A History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom , Oxford University Press , 37 Dover St., London, W1, England . Vol. I . The Birth of Broadcasting (1961); Vol. II . The Golden Age of Wireless (1965); Vol. III . The War of Words (1970). EXTERNAL
Pawley E. L. E. , A History of BBC Engineering , BBC Publications , 35 Marylebone High St., London, England . EXTERNAL

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