Here's a BBC document that dates from 1958 and details various BBC engineering firsts - really interesting as there is a bit of an expose of VERA - the Beeb's own video recording system that they were using a couple of years before Ampex launched Quadruplex in form of the VR-1000.
It struck me that most of the content is similair to the state of the industry when I started in the eighties and fundamentally different from how the industry is now. When I started digital video was only just being talked about (I didn't see a digital VTR for a few years - D1 & D2 took a while to find wide acceptance at the Beeb) and all distribution etc. was analogue.
There are even some good atists impressions of the yet-to-be built Television Centre!
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