CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[The Sarnoff Collection]

Vinyl Videos: The Rise and Fall of the RCA Videodisc

Introduced in 1981, the RCA Videodisc system – along with the story of its creation, introduction, and impact on the RCA corporation – embodies the curious power and fragility of corporate innovation.

This exhibit uses objects, images, and documents from the Sarnoff archives along with first-hand and scholarly accounts of this product’s development and demise to examine the complex relationships between basic research, business decision-making, and product development and marketing.

Vinyl Videos Public Reception and Informal Discussion

Sunday April 24
Reception 1pm, Discussion 2-3:30pm
Presented live and via Zoom
No reservations necessary
To attend via Zoom:
https://tcnj.zoom.us/j/92539097242?pwd=VDUxeTBDYXJYT2xidmIyTlRjbFlmUT09

All are welcome at a public reception followed by a live/Zoom conversation among Videodisc project leaders and scholars and historians of science, technology. and innovation. Participants include Dr. Margaret Graham, author, The Business of Research: RCA and The Videodisc; Dr. Benjamin Gross, author, The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs; Dr. John A. van Raalte, lead RCA Videodisc researcher; Brian Wallace, curator, Sarnoff Collection. Flori Pierri, assistant curator at the MIT Museum, will moderate the conversation.

This program is made possible in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the New Jersey Historical Commission and the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

davidsarnoff.tcnj.edu

The Sarnoff Collection is located on the second floor of Roscoe L. West Hall at The College of New Jersey.

Visitor parking is available at the entrance to Parking Lot 17 and on the circle in front of the Education School.
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Brian Wallace, curator
The David E. Sarnoff Collection
The College of New Jersey
wallaceb@tcnj.edu

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