Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)" video.

  1.  @okaro6595  In 1956 Australia started with a 10-channel VHF-only CCIR system Ch. 1 to 10. By 1958 the 10-channel system was getting cramped so three extra channels, 0, 5a and 11 were added with tuners capable of selecting them retrofitted to older sets. This gave us a 13-channel VHF-only system with several stations sharing any given channel, separated geographically. In 1976 or so UHF was introduced to provide frequencies for translator services for regional stations(and for metro stations only to provide services into topographically-isolated suburbs) It was SBS(Special Broadcasting Service) that gave UHF wider coverage in Australia as, in 1980 it was the only network transmitting on the band though it briefly used Ch.0 for its first three years on air. For this to happen, Stations ATV-Melbourne and TVQ-Brisbane had to be reallocated new channels, they were given VHF Ch.10.
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  2. It's not the channel that makes the shows and/or broadcasts them, it's the STATION! The channel is nothing more than a chunk of spectrum space. it has NO physical entity.
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  3.  @blackhatfreak  In the analogue days it was a mix of VHF and UHF. The Australian UHF channels were 21 up to 69 but channels 21 to 27 and 31 to 34 weren't used for broadcast services, though I think 31 was for community TV which the Liberal government in Australia treasonously abolished and 34 was for amateur TV for experimentation. But digital is, I think, all on UHF.
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  4. The 4-hour, and later 5-hour VHS cassette would've come along anyway. RCA had nothing to do with it!
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  5. (12:17)RCA played stuff-all role in developing videotape player/recorders for the home(VCRs). An early-to mid-1970s Philips-designed system using cassettes initially made with cardboard shells and concentric reels mounted one above the other was such a stuff-up that the tape was mangled in the player, so Philips deserves no credit whatsoever. Sony gets credit in 1972 for the Beta video system, which hit the domestic market in 1975, and Matsushita in 1976 came up with the VHS system ON ITS OWN! RCA was NOWHERE TO BE SEEN in any of these developments.
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  6.  @scottgfx  That(Cartrivision) has been covered in other editions of this segment. From memory, I think it used film and acted sort-of like a telecine system, so may not have been capable of home recording(time-shift).
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  7. In 1929 when RCA(still part of General Electric) bought the plant at Camden, New Jersey, and the Victor brand-name, that's ALL they should've been allowed to buy. The His Master's Voice brand was 100% owned by The Gramophone Company of England Pty Ltd., and The Gramophone Company should've IMMEDIATELY REVOKED The Victor Talking Machine Comany's licence to use the HMV trademark. Prior to World War One, The Gramophone Company of England held 50% of the HMV brand, the other 50% being held by what was, at that time, the British company's German parent, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellshaft mbH, under which, the trademark was known as "Die Stimme Seines Herrens". Emile Berliner, who had established the German and British companies, also set up the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, but only as an afterthought. Victor was an insignificant minor side-operation. It owned not even the smallest fraction of 1% interest in the HMV trademark and the patents on the trademark and the products made, disc-playing gramophones and the discs themselves were registered by DGG and The Gramophone Co. Victor played ZERO part in the development and/or improvement thereof, they just made and sold the product, nothing more. In 1918, after WW1, DGG lost the Gramophone Co and Victor Talking Machine Co. as "spoils of war". Indeed, DGG could now only use the HMV trademark in Germany itself and only under licence from its former division, now fully-fledged independent company, The Gramophone Co. DGG found itself in a similar situation to its insignificant American offshoot, Victor. The HMV trademark was now 100% British-owned and Victor was now paying licence fees to Britain for the privilege of using the trademark and building the HMV gramophone for the US/Canada market and putting its own name on what was basically a British product. So that brings us back to 1929 and two jokers come sniffing around the Victor plant at Camden, initially just wanting greater floor space to expand radio production, but seeing what was going on, deciding to get in on the act, and here is where The Gramophone Co. should've said "STOP! You can buy the plant and the Victor name but the rights to the HMV brand are NON-TRANSFERABLE! The Brand is EXCLUSIVELY the property of The Gramophone Co. of England and will remain so until WE deem otherwise!"
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  8.  @dryphtyr  er..... you're not pregnant, are you? LOL
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  9.  @stephanierando3477  I don't think it's in the "books".
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