ATV

摘要

In the last ATV column I covered some of the early TV cameras, many of which can now be found in the hands of amateurs. I had lots of e-mails on this subject, including one from Stephen Beamish pointing out that the first colour camera to be used operationally by the BBC was the Philips PC60. Stephen was Chief Engineer at Intertel, the television facilities company based in Wembley, which also purchased four PC60s at that time. Several of the e-mails ask "How were the early programmes recorded?". The short answer is that many of them were not, as most of early TV was 'live'.