Video: The Inside Story

by Gareth Renowden, Denis Bishop

Explains, using drawings and diagrams, some of the applications of video technology, including factory monitoring systems, video games, satellite broadcasting, television production, and flight simulation.

37 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Gareth Renowden is a writer, photographer and truffle grower based in the Waipara Valley, New Zealand. His latest book is The Aviator, a story set in a world being battered by climate change and economic collapse - the first in a series dealing with the Burning World. Here's the blurb:

Flying around a world riven by climate change and economic collapse in his hi-tech airship, Lemmy encounters the strange remnants of civilisation - people searching for the singularity, a rocking bishop in his flying cathedral, the last climate sceptics, deep green terrorists, billionaire libertarians in their bubble, and much, much more. Not to mention the goats, the girlfriend with bots in her head and the elixir of life (which is cheese).

Gareth's book on climate change, Hot Topic - Global Warming & The Future of New Zealand, was published by AUT Media in 2007, and shortlisted for the Royal Society of NZ's inaugural science book prize. The Truffle Book (Limestone Hills Publishing 2005) won the Special Jury Award at the 2007 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Beijing, and he was the keynote speaker at the 2007 Oregon Truffle Festival. He publishes the influential Hot Topic blog (http://hot-topic.co.nz/), covering climate change science and politics in New Zealand.