From Ken Green
I had to smile at your record of the first issue of New Scientist in
which you prophesied that household colour TV was a long way off
(25 December 1999, p 18).
It reminded me of the half-hour I spent with pencil and paper explaining to
my Father why he would never realise his dream of home tape equipment that would
enable him to record or play films, let alone do so in colour. All a matter of
bandwidth and dynamic range, I told him. Three years later I was handed the job
of writing the BBC’s training manual on video tape-recording.
Tintagel, Cornwall
