>This summer, I'm hoping to teach a "Communications Technology" seminar for >Master's students. The approach will be primarily social and historical. >However, I'd like to include some readings which substantially but clearly >explain, in reasonable detail, the general technological ins and outs of >the following: > >1/2" video recording and playback You gotta get "Fast Forward", a funny and intreguing lok at the advent of videotape technology...the soap opera surrounding the battle between Matsushitia, Sony, & JVC, & the early history of the work done by Ampex, where it came from, & where it went. "Fast Forward" by James Lardner. 1987 WW Norton, Publisher. ISBN 0-393-02389-3 BTW...if you find a source for them, please let me know...I lost my copy... Mike ----------------------------------------- Michael Sime <[log in to unmask]> Video Schmideo! <[log in to unmask]> ----------------------------------------- <http://www.videoschmideo.com> ----------------------------------------- It's not the time it takes to take the takes, it's the time it takes BETWEEN the takes, that takes the time to take the takes. ----------------------------------------- ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]