Before television became wireless after all those years of connection by coaxial cable, they had, in fact, originally been wireless…believe it or not!
Broadcasts would send a signal out into the air where they were captured by antennas connected to individual TV sets to be viewed by any and all.… Read the rest
What a difference three and one-half decades makes! This is an article I wrote for what turned out to be the last issue of Video Action Magazine (July 1981), which (in a total retrospective lack of surprise considering the principles behind this endeavor) died with a whimper, not a bang (more about Video Action can be found here).… Read the rest
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…well, in Chicago about thirty-five years ago, I was associate editor and staff writer on Video Action Magazine, one of the earliest home video magazines to hit the newsstands, a tale I related in an earlier post.… Read the rest
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