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Information Display Information Display The Official Journal of the Society For Information Display FEBRUARY, 1982 Shown here is Dr . Jay J . Brandinger, a SID member densities, information elements as small as 0.5 micro­ who is vice president. RCA SelectaVision Video Disc meter along the grooves and groove density of 3793 Division, Indianapolis. He has supplied the following grooves per centimeter are used. The development of a summary of the article appearing on pages 3 to 5. compatible disc-stylus arrangement has been the main The development of a video disc system is a natural focus of research and development for the past 15 years. outgrowth of the historical desire to record sight and The cost-effective manufacturing of quality discs and sound information. Combining the concepts of audio stylus cartridge assemblies is fundamental to achieving disc recording and color pictures, video discs achieve an a viable consumer product. Similarly, the availability in equivalent information storage of more than 200 billion quantity of many software titles is necessary to satisfy a (200x 10 9 ) bits representing two hours of color television broad range of people with different demographic, programming - truly a remarkable achievement when geographic, sex, and age differences. it is realized that the cost is less than 10 milli-microcents The discussion on pages 3 to 6 reviews the marketing per bit. results and expansion plans since the March 22, 1981 The RCA " CED" VideoDisc system is a capacitance introduction of RCA's CED VideoDisc system to the electronic disc system which uses a stylus to pick up American market as well as a description of disc video and audio information stored in the grooves of a fabrication and player operation. rotating plastic disc. To achieve high information storage FRONT COVER MATERIAL WELCOMED: Every month Information Display usuallyfeatures one or more active members of SID and the products with which they are most closely associated. Please send a glossy print and appropriate captions so that you, too, can be on our front cover. Send your material to Ted Lucas, Editor, P.O. Box 852, Cedar Glen, CA 92321, or to our National Office Manager, June Friend, for Information Display, 654 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049. Next deadline for material from you is March 10 for the April issue. If you miss that, try for the May issue. NOTE: We also welcome feature articles on interesting projects. OFFICERS 1200 E. Mermaid Lane. Philadelphia. PA 19118 President . ......................................... T. DuPuis GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Vice President ...................................... G.F. Carroll Aerospace Control Systems Department Treasurer .......... ... ............................. I. F. Chang P.O. Box 5000, Binghamton, NY 13902 GEROME MANUFACTURING CO., INC. Secretary ...................... ................. J.A. van Raalte P.O. Box 1089, Oliver Road, Uniontown, PA 15401 DIRECTORS GML INFORMATION SERVICES Central . .... •............... ................ V .A. Born 594 Marrett Road, Lexington, MA 02173 Midwest . .... • .. ........... ... ......... .... J. Mark in GTE LABOR ATORIES, INC. 40 Sylvan Road. Waltham, MA 02254 Northeast . .•... ........ P. Pleshko, W.G. M u lley, G.R. Spencer HARTMAN SYSTEMS Western ............•... H.P. Sher man, L. Tannas, Jr., R. E. Thoman Division of A-T-O Inc., Japan .................................... ......... M. Ashikawa 360 Wolf Hill Road, Huntington Station, NY 11746 Past President ..................................... B.J. Lechner HAZELTINE CORPORATION Greenlawn. NY 11740 COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY Academic ..................... ...... ... ... ....... .. W. Frei Culver City. CA 90230 AFIPS Representative ................. .. ...... C.P. Crocetti HYCOM, INCORPORATED Archives/H istorian .......................... • ..... R.C. Knepper 16841 Armstrong Ave., Irvine. CA 92714 Bylaws ..................................... • ..... J.B. Flannery IBM CORPORATION Definitions & Standards ....... .............. • ...... N.W. Patrick Armonk, NY 10504 IMAPRO, INC. H onors & Awards . .................................. I. Re ing old West Royalty lnd ustrial Park Membersh ip ................ .. • ... • . ........... P. Pleshko Charlottetown, P.R.I., Canada C1E 1BO Nominations ................ .. • . ........... B.J. Lechner INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS, INC. Proceedings .. ...............................•....... S. Sherr 7740 Lemona Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91405 Publications ......... ..... ........... .......... T.V. Curran INTERSTATE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION Publicity . ........................... ........... J .L. Simonds Display Product Operations Symposium Advisory Committee .................. J .A. van Raalte 1001 E. Ball Road, Anaheim, CA 92803 ISE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION CHAPTER OFFICERS P.O. Box 46. lse. Mie. Japan Chapter Chairman KING RADIO CORPORATION Bay Area ....................... .. ... • .... ..•.... M. Rehmus 400 N. Rogers Rd., Olathe. KS 66062 Del. Valley ......•.......•..... ................... C . Halstead MACDERMID INCORPORATED 50 Brookside Rd., Waterbury, CT 06708 Japan ..................•..............•.. ............. I. Ohishi MAGNETIC RADIATION LABS., INC. Los Angeles ............•..... .. • ...... •.. .......... G. Kramer 92 N. Lively Blvd. Mid-Atlantic ............ ..............•............ S. Goldfarb Elk Grove Village. IL 60007 Midwest ........................•..................... W. Martin MITSUBISHI ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC. Minn./St. Paul .................. • ..................... A. Taylor 2200 W. Artesia. Compton, CA 90220 New England ....................................... G. Spencer OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTO. San Diego . ... ........................................ D. Keller 550-5 Higashiasakawa-cho. Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 193, Japan OPTICAL COATING LABORATORY, INC. June Friend, National Office Manager P.O. Box 1599. Santa Rosa. CA 95402 Ted Lucas, Information Display J ournal Edito r ORWIN ASSOCIATES, INC. Lewis Winner, Symposium Consultant 88 Seabro Avenue, Amityville, New York 11701 SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY PHOTO RESEARCH DIVISON 654 No. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90049 Kollmorgen Corporation (213) 472-3550 3000 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505 PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY P.O. Box 432, Luckey, OH 43443 PLESSEEY OPTOELECTRONICS AND MICROWAVE LTD. §v~~!!i!!!~!!_g Members Wood Burcote Way. Towcester, Northants, England NN12 7JN 625 Monroe Street. Rochester. 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