Posted by Tim Smith on 01/06/07 01:11

In article <p6ksp21rsv4rv6155q0vpg7b791elqengq@4ax.com>,
JoeBloe <joebloe@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:
>
> Wrong. He specifically stated "needle and groove".
>
> There is NO needle, and there is most certainly no grooves.
>
> >Selectavision used a stylus riding in a grove.
>
> Nope. The "stylus" retrieved data from a capacitive pickup.
> No groove. No needle. No little bumps to read.

RCA seems to think there was a groove, at least when they described the
system in one of their patents:

<http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&Se
ct1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=4145718.PN.&OS=PN/414571
8&RS=PN/4145718>

The people who wrote the SelectaVision FAQ seemed to think so, too:

<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/rec-video/videodisc/selectavision/>

RCA seemed to think there were grooves when they talked about the system
in press releases. For example:

<http://www.cedmagic.com/museum/press/release-1983-06-08.html>

You seem to be about the only person in the universe who thinks there
wasn't a groove.

--
--Tim Smith

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