Monday, May 18, 2026

How they make TV

 I'm reading through all my old Beanos now. And I realise that my thoughts about this one haven't really changed since Christmas 1982. Is this actually how it works?


I mean, I've been on telly quite a bit since then, but I still know very little about the actual workings of the technology. When they show a film on TV, they don't actually point a TV camera at a big cinema screen, do they? They must do it by.... some other way? Right?

I suppose nowadays they do it with... computers, or something. But in 1982? Perhaps that was what they did. I should probably learn more about this.