Twenty years a-growing

摘要

HAVING HIRED me to edit the start-up TVBEurope in early 1993, the first time New York-based founder and publisher Paul Gallo and I formally met was at a press conference at a Heathrow hotel. Sony had called the press conference to explain a new phenomenon called digital* compression, as applied to its soon-to-launch VTR format Digital Betacam. Paul had flown in overnight from JFK, and after a quick wash-up (during which time I eagerly tried to impress him with my knowledge of European broadcasting!) we headed into the Sony event.