The only video recorders at the time were huge Ampex reel-to-reel machines used by television stations to rebroadcast live shows in later time zones.As means for distributing high-definition video, neither Blu-ray nor HD DVD is unique.
That is why Televisa is so alarmed by Ifetel's decision to let Dish (with Mr Slim in the background) rebroadcast its terrestrial channels free of charge: it will make it much easier for Dish to sign up subscribers.
But it has not, largely because Americans like local programming; for technical and legal reasons satellite cannot rebroadcast local signals.
Just last month, the overseas network announced a deal that allowed ABC programmes to be distributed through Shanghai Media Group, a state-owned studio in China, for rebroadcast there.
They then rebroadcast that information from loudspeakers hanging 100 metres down below the ice, in the transmission layer.
Ifetel has already stood up to Televisa, by allowing pay-TV firms to rebroadcast terrestrial channels without paying for the privilege.
A popular television series, "Advance toward the Republic", that focused on those reforms and was aired in 2003, was cut by censors before the series finished, and banned from rebroadcast.
Its smudgy typewritten pages had a tiny circulation but, rebroadcast on Western radio stations, they reached millions.
Satellite TV is still mostly the preserve of elites Angola's few rich parade their wealth with dishes atop ramshackle homes but deals with local stations mean that some of MultiChoice's programming is rebroadcast to millions more viewers.
If he set up the account with no personal details, the hunt may be impossible.The offending tweet was rebroadcast an estimated 2m times within hours, and also began to appear in pages created in the celebrities' names on Facebook.
Its next targets are TNT and Ekho Moskvy (Moscow's Echo), an influential radio station whose programmes are widely rebroadcast across Russia.
