[opendtv] Re: Japanese Television History
- From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:55:21 -0500
I should clarify that Takyanagi went from NHK to Japan Victor (JVC).
Here are some more sources:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/
http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp/english/company/profile/innovative.html
Here's why the Yagi antenna has that name:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/column/index1.html
TTFN,
Mark
Mark Schubin wrote:
Here is some of the older stuff. Although there's an NHK site,
Takayanagi worked for Japan Victor:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/
Go to the adjacent pages for more info.
TTFN,
Mark
Allen Le Roy Limberg wrote:
The idea that the Japanese television industry originated with NHK
doesn’t square with what I little I know about the history of TV
development in Japan. Before WW2 RCA had a Japanese subsidiary Japan
Victor. A German-Jewish businessman Hans Strauss left Germany in the
30’s and took up residence in Japan. He was a personal friend of
David Sarnoff’s. I am not sure whether or not he was associated with
Japan Victor. After the war Japan Victor made overtures to rejoin
itself with RCA, but the decision was to make it a separate company
which became JVC. RCA decided it preferred licensing foreign
companies rather than attempting to manage foreign subsidiaries. This
decision was probably arrived at because of the huge investments RCA
was making at the time in the television and computer businesses.
Hans Strauss set up the basic network of patent agents RCA used
abroad and initiated the licensing programs in Japan and in Europe.
Radios were the matter of concern just after the war. Sony became an
early licensee, and a Japanese national Toshiro Sawya worked for Sony
and later for RCA. He had a good technical background for the day,
was extremely affable and spoke excellent English. RCA Industry
Service Lab had a laboratory in Tokyo that offered assistance in
monochrome TV and later on in color. In the 60’s Ed Johnson was the
head of the Tokyo lab, and he may still live in the Princeton, NJ
area. Hans Strauss is probably dead, but the other two men would be
in their 80’s and might still be living.
Al Limberg
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