@smartereveryday
Dude, maybe I'm biased because we're friends.... But your latest content had been consistently phenomenal. This is excellent.
@vodkainglassofstalinium1221
History of veritasium 2013:- Uploads once six months or so 2019:- Uploads every alternate week AND WE LOVE IT
@sarabeth641
I'm so glad to see you posting more. Thank you for continuing to educate us.
@mohnjarx7801
It's mind boggling to think how the pioneers of this technology came up with their ideas, let alone figured out how to build them
@kalvinhalvorson6072
It’s truly amazing that people were able to think of stuff like that from scratch
@robertholtz
My father, Sam Holtz, was a legend in broadcast television engineering, telecine, and video post production. He filled my head with all this engineering science and history over the course of most of my life, along with all these technical inner workings you described... just about all of it now a lost art. I watched this video with a deep appreciation for you. Thank you for bringing this knowledge to a new generation and doing it so accurately. I just wish my dad was still around to have watched your video. I know it would’ve put a smile on his face. Peace.
@Boredman567
IIRC, the fact that storing video was difficult meant that a lot of famous TV broadcasts have been lost, even after recorders were adopted. The early episodes of Dr. Who were taped over for later programs, and now the only known recordings are audio tapes made by a viewer. The moon landing footage was also taped over by NASA, so the only existing footage is a video recording of a video broadcast of a video broadcast.
@skierpage
Alexander Bain's electromechanical fax at 1:18 is so smart. One person in 1843 could understand electric transmission, clock mechanisms, paper chemistry, and lithography to assemble the whole system!
@HumansOfVR
My ears and eyes haven't experienced the ancient technology in so long
@5MadMovieMakers
I forget that YouTube is named after the thing it's gradually replacing
@Chickenbreadlp
It's interesting to know that high quality 35mm Film has about as much detail as a 4k Video. The reason most movie studios waited so long to switch to video is not because they waited for better editing techniques, but more because they waited for Video quality to catch up with film quality. That's also the reason why some older Music Videos can be remastered into good looking 4k, but some newer ones can't, the latter being shot in Video. Even today, some movie directors opt to shoot on film, but 70mm IMAX often, rather then 35mm...
@naota3k
Can you imagine.. "Gather round, family! Time to fire up the color-picture tube!" switch clicks, relays fire, belts and color wheel spin up shouting "SO WHAT DO WE WANT TO SEE TONIGHT?!"
@pathologicaldoubt
Derek: explains inner-working mechanics of video cameras Me: Magic. So, it's magic. Got it.
@RayMak
We are so lucky to be living in this day and age
@adonismateo
these people were genius for sure 👏🏽
@necessaryevil455
Amazing. If everyone was as smart as me we would still be using stone tools.
@pixoariz
Mechanical TV for the masses! All power to the vidicons, image orthicons and iconoscopes! From a Labguy and Veritasium fan: thoroughly well researched and executed. Thank you.
@BruceCinema1337
It feels like Veritasium filled in for Vsauce after Michael lost his marbles.
@johnrogers9481
Derek, I enjoyed this show. Quite interesting to get a wrap up on film and video, as I lived through this period since 1953! Great to see how it was done after just being on the receiving end most of my life. Also I got involved in acquiring and editing video in the mid nineties. Oh, I also enjoyed your show on the wave pool, that is so amazing! Thanks for everything!
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