Carl G. Eilers

When he went to work for Zenith Electronics in 1948, Eilers' assignment was to work on "Phonevision", or pay television. "Even then he developed the core concepts that are used today, such as scrambling a signal and you only get an unscrambled signal if you pay for it," a Zenith spokesman said. But Eilers is better known for a couple of other Zenith innovations: he led the team that created the standard for FM stereo, which was adopted by the FCC in 1961 and is still in use today, and Eilers later expanded that work for another medium: TV. Zenith's multichannel television sound, or stereo TV with a "separate audio program" that for instance could carry the soundtrack in other languages, was adopted industry-wide in 1984. Eilers stayed at the company for 50 years before retiring. He died June 20 from an apparent heart attack at 83. From This is True for 22 June 2008 Suggestions for further reading: The Taming of the Shrew (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare Amazon Price: $5.99 Customer Review: "The Taming of the Shrew" is probably William Shakespeare's second most controversial play -- nobody can figure out if it's misogynistic or a biting double satire on the sexes. Whatever it is, it's still a witty and hilarious comedy that pits the tit...   The Screwtape Letters: First Ever Full-cast Dramatization of the Diabolical C... Amazon Price: $26.39 Customer Review: The written work is of course one of great popularity in christian literature, but this dramatization, read by such fantastic voices and believable background soundtrack, leads to a retelling with more imagination than most readers can muster in the ...   On Directing Film by David Mamet Amazon Price: $10.08 Customer Review: Of the hundreds of 'How To' books on movie making - or mostly screenwriting - this slim volume is succinct, provocative, dogmatic (as only Mamet is dogmatic), witty and more use than twenty texts on 'the rules'. It contains no doubt edited lectures ...   Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema by Gary Giddins Amazon Price: $12.89 Customer Review: Gary Giddins seems to have seen and read everything, which one would expect of a professional critic, yet his literary voice is that of a populist, a thinker who lives and breathes aesthetics but writes from the conviction that cinema, like jazz, is ...   The Chronicles of Narnia: Never Has the Magic Been So Real (Radio Theatre) [F... by C. S. Lewis Amazon Price: $19.78 Customer Review: We listen to these all the time. In the car, in the kitchen, on our mp3 players. My 3-year old daughter is starting to actually listen to them and enjoy them. The cast, music, dialogue and drama are all wonderful. I cannot recommend enough!   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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