--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One interesting note here. The Veda Vision crew: Eric Sandell, Flash > Pflaumer, and others spent over $1 million in their Livingston Manor > workshop trying to develop the first VCR. They did have a working model, but it was so sensitive that the shaking of the ground from a truck driving up the driveway would disrupt it's functioning. Needless to say, someone developed a better one, which the Movement ended up using. At one point, the TMO was 2nd only to the US Military as a purchaser of videotape. But it was > an old, reel-to-real Beta format, not the cassettes we now use.
A few supplemental points and possible corrections: - The first cassette, home use, VCR was introduced in 1972 by Phillips. - TMO had video cassette players (could not record) in the field teaching SCI in early 1973. I bought and used one. - Livingston Manor was aquired ? As I remember it was definately not 72, maybe latter half of 73 or 74 -- or later. Who remembers? - One incarnation of VedaVision was working in the fall of 72 on a laser disk technology -- the precursor to the DVD -- pre Livingston Manor. They had a working prototype, I saw it. While mind blowing back then, it was a very weak wobbly picture. Definately not DVD like picture quality. - MMY interacted with the VV enginners quite a bit in fall of 72. Much more than a cursory look as Bob implies. - As I remember, the engineers credited MMY with some quite useful insights on the technology. (Though there was a lot of euphoria in those days, so some might have been wishful thinking.) - RCA labs created their first laser disc in Sept 1972. http://www.cedmagic.com/history/first-successful-ced.html - Veda Vison pursued the laser disc technology for a while, until it became clear that major players were quite abit aheaqd of them. The vision was that VV laser disc would be a huge market hit and its profits would fund the World Plan -- just annnounced earlier that year. (3600 centers world wide, one for each million population). And just think how things might have turned out if they were 6 months ahead of themselves -- and gained major patents in laser appliance technology. In the next several decades, consumer and office electronics were revolutionized by the laser: laser printers, CD's, DVDs, etc. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
