vale Ed Reitan

[stromberg67]

Originally Posted by Steve McVoy

We have copied his website and added to the ETF site.

Steve, thank you for the copy. I'm very sad about Ed's passing. I learned much from his website and it led to further study of all things color TV. The quest for knowledge continues. He filled in many facts about the CBS system, and early NTSC experiments.
RIP Ed Reitan. You will be missed.
Kevin

[reeferman]

I'll think of Ed being up there with the greats who were instrumental in making color TV a reality.
RIP Buddy
Phil

[ChrisW6ATV]

Very sad news indeed.

[Phil Nelson]

Yes, how sad to hear of Ed's passing. It's fortunate that ETF is able to archive his website, which is a good resource. Here's the new URL for those who like to bookmark such things:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/Reitan/index.html

Thanks to Steve for providing that service.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[Electronic M]

IIRC that website was hosted by another company which sold out, and wiped the site data so fast that Ed never had a chance to properly back it up, and for a few years the rebuilt site was a shell of it's former self since Ed had no way of getting back the lost data. Then about a couple of years back someone who had downloaded the whole site months to weeks before it was lost came forward, and Ed along with the ETF restored it, and gave a new home it on the ETF web servers to preserve the wealth of information on Ed's recovered site.

[KentTeffeteller]

A very sad loss of a prominent television researcher, engineer, and historian. Ed Reitan was a superb teacher, engineer, and preservationist of early TV history, his specialty being early USA and worldwide Color Television history. His website is one of the best teaching tools on early TV history, that I recommend it to all interested people as a key resource. As I do Videokarma and a few other sites. This world is blessed we had Ed Reitan, but very saddened he is no longer with us. A salute to a superb historian, engineer, and great all around human being. I learned more from Ed than I can ever repay to mankind, he was that full of knowledge on his field.

[sweitzel]

I thought that was actually Pete Deksnis's Ct100 site.

Originally Posted by Electronic M

IIRC that website was hosted by another company which sold out, and wiped the site data so fast that Ed never had a chance to properly back it up, and for a few years the rebuilt site was a shell of it's former self since Ed had no way of getting back the lost data. Then about a couple of years back someone who had downloaded the whole site months to weeks before it was lost came forward, and Ed along with the ETF restored it, and gave a new home it on the ETF web servers to preserve the wealth of information on Ed's recovered site.

[Steve McVoy]

Yes, it was Pete's. But we also downloaded Ed's site just after his death and put it on the ETF site since we didn't know how long it would be up.

[jstout66]

I am sad to hear this. I met Ed as he had a house in Omaha, and got to see some of his sets. He was a really nice guy.