The New Video
May, 1984
Understanding television was simple. There was no channel one. We all knew that. There were 12 V.H.F. channels (you got them by playing with rabbit ears) and 70 possible U.H.F. channels (you got them by moving a loop back and forth). V.H.F. had all the network stuff and the decent movies and the world series. U.H.F. had the Gilligan's Island reruns. Simple enough.Then came video cassette recorders so you could record shows you weren't watching. Then came home-video cameras that patched into the...
