Alot of patents and inventions get bought and "Vaulted" by the government or Corporations if it would mean they lose profit. Great ideas forever hidden, just so some fat cat doesn't lose revenue or gain competition.
History. The earliest video cameras were mechanical flying-spot scanners which were in use in the 1920s and 1930s during the period of mechanical television. Improvements in video camera tubes in the early 1930s ushered in the era of electronic television.
Ampex video tape, as used in the television industry in the 1960s. This was during the 1960s and early 1970s, when the first consumer video recorders were released, including the Ampex VR-1500 (1963), Philips EL 3400 (1964) and Sony CV-2000 (1965), also called 'videotape recorders' (VTRs).
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25
Alot of patents and inventions get bought and "Vaulted" by the government or Corporations if it would mean they lose profit. Great ideas forever hidden, just so some fat cat doesn't lose revenue or gain competition.