Comments by "LilZebra" (@jaworskij) on "AT&T Tech Channel" channel.

  1. "A television signal can travel either by coaxial (cable) or by radio relay" Before satellite and fibre.
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  2. In the early 1980s we had to draw by hand the programming symbols on computer printout paper or our notebooks. I feel jipped.
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  3. Wow! I'm sitting here transfixe at the quality for 1965.
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  4. Flat screens were in development since the 1950s. It took till the mid- late-1990s to actually make them affordable.
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  5. 4:05 looking further out? Yes DBS existed since the mid-1980s, however most of the programs that were good in the 80s, after that programming on television went way downhill by the 90s and the by the 2000s people were more on the Internet. DBS had it today. It was in the mid 80s to the late 80s very short time.
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  6. They sure didn't use Technicolor on this documentary film. Eeeks! We're losing so much of our filmed heritage. I was 1 yo. when this film was made.
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  7. But I think videophone or video calling is a good application in this example. People who are distances apart and want to share an event. Families who are spread apart. My Unle's family (in central Canada) has a son who lives in TN. They would usually have a "Merry Christmas" phone call on Christmas night. Usually it was a private call between my Uncle & Aunt and their son. Years later it became a wider call when they bought a phone with "speakerphone" capability. In the late 90s or early 2000s it was video that bridged the distance. But for local calls, I agree, videophone is not needed if you already see the other person regularly.
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  8. What is that constant tone I hear along with the audio?
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  9. America's mistake getting into the Iraq War in '91 and again in '03. More than a quarter century later, the West is paying for this mistake in "refugees" from the Middle-East on our shores. George HW Bush's fault.
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  10. What's with the Herzian tone in this film? Can you not digitally edit it out?
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  11. People use "videophone" for making YouTube videos moreso than calling their families. 1991 was the Year of the "network" printer and the "Year of the LAN. Speaking of printers, nothing in this video had a printer. I guess Ma Bell really believed we could go 100% paperless by 2003.
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  12. Yes but most of us could not afford the almost $50 per month plus Datapac usage fees. Videotex was very very slow at 1200 bps. But I really love the cool graphics. However video text could not produce good-quality photographic color images. It was best at vector graphics
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  13. We'd still be using rotary dial telephones. Yes, I know.
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  14. Murral Hill, New Jersey? Really AT&T?
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  15. They say that suicide is strongest in White Males mid-40s to early 50s in age. Weve been replaced by the Third World labour. No surprises there.
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  16. That narrator sound a bit like Ronald Reagan. Could it be he?
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  17. 15:06 - It was the United States, Canada, and Mexico that formed NAFTA and after that another "trade deal" that siphoned off good paying manufacturing jobs to the 3rd world. This video snippet comes off as political propagnda. Doesn't belong in a video about telecom tech.
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  18. Didn't the radio stations provide enough local news back in the day?
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  19. But most of the programming on those few channels was so much better. I used to watch LIVE sporting events on the weekend via ABC Wide World of Sports and CBC Sportsweekend in the 70s. At some point I stopped watching, not because they were transmitted by satellite instead of microwave, but that there was an increased commercialism present in the broadcast. When it came to broadcasting cop dramas on 16mm film and stuff like that on the network, it didnt matter, beause 16mm film back then was not comparable to digital sound we have now.
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  20. Rescue 911 brought me here.
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  21. I tried out Google Talk on Google Chrome two years ago, but I don't trust Google much because they're the new Microsoft.
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  22. The guy 1:34 can't type worth a dick
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  23. Is this the very first ever "talking film"? I thought Disney's 1927 Mickey Mouse was the firstl
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  24. I have two theories about this incident: 1) All the old wiring and technology was overburdened and so complex that it was inevitable that one day something like this was gonna happen. 2) Inside job so that all the outdated mechanical equipment could be replaced to ESS electronic switches.
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  25. This 'smells' musty.
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  26. What kind of CPU mainframe/minicomputer did this require back then?
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  27. There is an inaccuracy in this video. Presentation Level Protocol (PLP) was developed FIRST by he Canadian 'Department of Communicaions' at the Communications Research Centre, which was a Federal gov't office in the 1970s and 1980s. NAPLPS, was developed, based on the earlier work on PLP, by AT&T.
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  28. I'm glad that you appreciate The Men of the Vest
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