| #3796419 in Books | 2000-12-01 | 2001-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.50 x.75l,.0 | File type: PDF | 316 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Review, "Restoring Baird's Image"|By Peter Yanczer|I must admit that when I first received this book, I thought it would be just about the restoration of images from the original Baird Phonovision recordings. Well, it is much more than that. It reads more like a television history book, all connected by Baird and his recordings. If you read this book, you will have a much bette||'Scholarly research and 'can't put it down' writing are rare companions. Don McLean has succeeded magnificently in conveying the excitement of unearthing and restoring recordings Baird's 30 line TV pictures.' --British Vintage Wireless Society Bulletin|
In the late 1920s, John Logie Baird - considered to be the inventor of television - was experimenting with 'phonovision' in which he attempted to record television signals onto gramophone discs. His efforts were mostly unsuccessful and this technology largely forgotten, until the 1980s when Don McLean came across the discs and set about restoring them with modern computer-based techniques. The recovery of these images gives us a fascinating glimpse of what the earliest ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Restoring Baird's Image (Iee History of Technology) | D.F. McLean. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
