Episode 56 • • 1:12:29 - 1:15:48
56: 100 Billion Dollars!
Legacy Media Formats and Television Shading
The difficulty of transcoding legacy data is illustrated by the legal industry's long-standing reliance on WordPerfect 4.1. In television history, the transition from Vidicon tubes to CCD chips eliminated the problem of "burn-in" caused by bright lights. Older production roles, such as the "shader" who manually adjusted light levels for multiple cameras, have largely been replaced by automated digital systems.