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Old 01-11-2018, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007 View Post
Sheesh, you have had to be a station very on top to afford a camera that costed like that. More then 1,000,000 U.S. Dollars in today's money. And you didn't need just one camera, you needed to. With the price of 2 cameras you could get the S.D. equypment of one studio.
You must realize that this price was paying the full development cost, because the makers knew that the market was only for a few while the HDTV system specifications were being developed. Once the system was standardized and broadcasts could start, the prices could drop to about 10-15% of the experimental model. Still not for the casual user, but something the broadcasters could afford.
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