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Iconoscope tube
Vladimir Zworykin demonstrated his first iconoscope tube, the first practical television camera tube -
First long-distance TV image
Charles Jenkins transmitted the first long-distance TV image -
First public demonstration of an electronic television system
Philo Farnsworth - First public demonstration of an electronic television system -
First commercial television broadcast
David Sarnoff and RCA -
RCA made the first true public demonstration of television
The words fair in New York -
First affordable television created
Earl ''Madman'' Muntz created the first affordable television -
Cable television introduced
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90% of U.S. households had television
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Colour television introduced
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first satellite broadcasts
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First home recorder
Sony introduced the Betamax tape recorder -
HDTV developed by Japan
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First internet broadcast
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DVD's commercially available
only 2% of homes had a dvd player -
Blu-Ray and HD DVD Introduced
Blu-Ray eventually wins the market -
DTV becomes mandatory for national networks