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Georges Rignoux's First Demonstration of Instantaneous Photo Transfer
At this point, it just showed singular letters of the alphabet -
Bélinographe/Wirephoto
Sent pictures over phone lines -
Archibald Low reveals his Televista
Allows for live video transmission -
Transmitted Moving Images for Witnesses
Charles Francis Jenkins demonstrates the technology in front of others -
Kalman Tihanyi creates a functioning "Cathode Ray Tube" (CRT) TV
This was fully electronic, as opposed to the mechanical TVs created before. CRT TVs are very thick to allow space between the Cathode Ray Tube in the back and the screen in the front. -
Phillps Rear-Projected TV Set
This TV was not CRT, but ended up requiring too much maintenance for average consumers. -
Color TVs are popularized
At this point, there was not much to watch on the color TVs, though. -
Color TV Begins Wide Broadcast
In the US, broadcasts of television specifically in color are widely broadcast, giving people more reason to buy color TVs specifically -
Plasma Displays begin use
These displayed everything in orange and were primarily for computers. -
Fujitsu creates a full-color plasma display
This company was later bought by Panasonic -
First large commercially available plasma TV
These could be bought at SEARS for a whopping $14,999 -
Rear-Projected Television makes a comeback
This is because it was cheaper than LCD and Plasma TVs -
Image Quality of Liquid-Crystal Display TV's surpasses CRT TV's
This competing technology suddenly took the stage, and in the same year, surpassed CRT TV in sales. -
Sony XEL-1
This was the first OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) Television to be available to the public - The technology was a little older, but hadn't been used in commercial TVs yet. OLED TVs overtook all other technologies soon after.