Solving Communication Problems with Visual Media

Part Two

In the beginning, television was simultaneously a production medium and a live distribution medium. Its production technique was matched to the necessity for live broadcasting. After the invention of videotape recording and the evolution of postproduction video editing, television could be produced with single cameras by non-broadcast companies as well as the broadcast behemoths. The television signal can be produced outside the studio, recorded, and edited on videotape. Television is now independently a distribution medium as well as a production medium. Television programs can be delivered to the end user by broadcast radio signal, by satellite, and by cable. To this now add netcasting ...

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