Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Mutual assured destruction, Wiping, Paper shredder, Decomposition, Big Rip, Shelf life, Proton antiproton annihilation, Road debris, Neutron-antineutron annihilation, Stabbing, Implosion, Big Crunch, File deletion, Period-after-opening symbol, Wear and tear, Tearing, List of musicians known for destroying instruments. Excerpt: Wiping or junking is a colloquial term for action taken by radio and television production and broadcasting companies, in which old audiotapes, videotapes, and telerecordings (kinescopes), are erased, reused, or destroyed after several uses. The practice was prevalent during the 1960s and 1970s, although it is now less common since associated storage costs have decreased, and especially since the advent of domestic audiovisual playback technology (e.g. videocassette and DVD), with broadcasters and production houses realizing both the economic and cultural value of keeping archived material for both rebroadcast and potential profits through release on home video. Australian broadcasters did not gain access to videotape-recording technology until the early 1960s, and as a result nearly all programs prior to that were broadcast live-to-air. Very little programming survives from the earliest years of Australian TV (1956-1960) as kinescope recording to film was expensive, and most of what was recorded in this way has since been lost or destroyed. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) erased much of their early output. Much of the videotaped ABC program material from the 1960s and early 1970s was erased as part of an economy policy instituted in the late 1970s, in which old program tapes were surrendered for bulk erasure and reuse. This policy particularly targeted older programs recorded in black-and-white, leading to the loss of many recordings made before 1975, when Australian television ... We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding Destruction: Mutual Assured Destruction, Wiping, Paper Shredder, Decomposition, Big Rip, Shelf Life, Proton Antiproton Annihilation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.