Click HERE to listen to Dr. Brandinger's 11 minute audio presentation on the history and significance of the RCA VideoDisc system. This is an 1982K QuickTime audio file.

Jay J. Brandinger received a BEE from Cooper Union in 1951. In 1962 he received an MSEE and in 1968 a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University. He joined RCA Radio Research Laboratories in Riverhead, Long Island, New York, as a member of the technical staff in 1951. In 1959 he was appointed group head of Communications Research at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1959 to 1974 he had responsibility for communication systems, display and television systems research. In 1974 he was appointed Division Vice President, TV Engineering, responsible for the development and design of all RCA Consumer Electronics television products.

Dr. Brandinger was named Division Vice President, RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc Operations in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1979 with overall responsibility for player and disc products. In his most recent assignment he was given responsibility for rapidly expanding RCA's VideoDisc manufacturing capability as the new SelectaVision VideoDisc Division's Vice President and General Manager. He retains overall responsibility for the RCA CED SelectaVision VideoDisc System.
- RCA 1981 Company Biography

After VideoDisc, Dr. Brandinger became director of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology.

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