I worked at Avenue House, as a pre-university trainee. The induction interview was in the bosses office, I can't remember his name but he looked like Fred Emney and smoked cigars.
He had the awful habit of starting a sentence, waffling for an extremely long time and then forgetting what he was trying to say, so he would then start another sentence which would end up the same etc etc. I sat in his office for 45 minutes and actually fell asleep while he was talking to me, not for long but just like when you nod off on the motorway late at night and then you awake with a start!
I worked for Sony Broadcast when they demonstrated the NHK-HDTV system. It was analogue, very expensive, uncompressed of course, and absolutely stunning. It never got off the ground as it was too expensive and it showed up the flaws in studios, nail heads, paint daubs etc, it was that good. You could walk up to the monitor and scrutinise every detail on the screen, much much sharper than today's compressed HDTV.