DTV transition is just another step in television's evolution. Looking at our modern television studio cameras today, there more like computers than cameras -- true high definition, lightweight, and all robotically controlled.
But it didn't use to be this way. Before the change over to digital television, one man likes to look back at the cameras television stations used to use.
Winder, Georgia resident Bobby Ellerbee has one of the best collections of studio cameras in the country. Like RCA's first color camera -- and would you believe it once belonged to Red Skelton?
"He had his own production company to do all his shows called Red-Eo-Video, that was bought by CBS and rolled into CBS' Television city in Hollywood and they later sold the camera's to NBC," said Ellerbee.
This camera changed television forever -- just like the switch to digital television will. But Ellerbee says this isn't the first switch to high definition.
"I...