to as high definition television. yeah, don t laugh. before that, television was just an odd fuzzy experiment small, selected audiences. and behind the scenes there was a bit of a battle going on. see, the bbc had actually opened up two studios at alexandra palace. this, studio b was a mechanical system which was made byjohn logie baird andit produced an image like this. meanwhile, in studio a, they were trailing an electrical system by emi and what they would do as they would alternate studios and systems on different days so they could compare the results and it turned out that emi s images at 25 frames per second were double the quality of the baird system. it had other advantages too. the baird camera was enormous. that emi one was somewhat more portable. and if you are filming with the baird system you need quite a lot of make up too. well, this is how it was, playmates. black and white, you see? and a bit of blue down each side of the nose. very sexy.
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