Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "1958: Introducing VERA - Britain's First Videotape Recorder | Panorama | Retro Tech I BBC Archive" video.

  1. What a silly question. You may as well ask why anyone builds anything if it already exists elsewhere, the answer is so you aren't stuck as a customer dependent on someone else.
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  2. A regular film camera using film rather than magnetic tape. He explains this right at the very start of the video.
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