Solving Communication Problems with Visual Media

In the beginning, television was simultaneously a production medium and a live distribution medium. Its production technique was matched to the necessity to broadcast live over the airwaves. After the invention of videotape recording and the evolution of postproduction video editing, television could be produced with single cameras by nonbroadcast companies as well as by the broadcast behemoths. The television signal can be produced outside the studio, recorded, and edited on videotape. We can call this video. Television is now a distribution medium as well as a production medium. Let’s not confuse ...

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