"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
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The man who invented stereo!

On radio 4 tonight at 8 pm a profile of
Alan Blumlein, including; if I heard
the trailer correctly this morning, some
early stereo recordings from 1933.
Set your MiniDiscs chaps.


I've just got around to listening to this. It was fascinating, especially
listening to those experimental stereo recordings. There's no doubt that
Blumlein was a genius, one of the greatest electronics engineers who ever
lived. One can only speculate as to what he might have achieved if he hadn't
tragically died so young.

But I regard the comment that he should be regarded as the "true inventor"
of television as absurd. As far back as 1912 Campbell-Swinton had outlined
the basic block-diagram of electronic TV, and Zworykin had patented an
electronic camera tube in 1923. Both long before Blumlein turned his talents
to TV.

And why did the programme claim that the Television Committee's
specification for the Alexandra Palace TV service was for a minimum of 250
lines, when it was for a minimum of 240 lines? Not a particularly important
mistake, but why get it wrong when it's so easy to get it right?

David.