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First Television
The first t'v ever made, it was a mechanical television and was made in the Unitedd States. -
Mechanical TV
worlds first public demonstration of a mechanical tv to about 40 people of the royal institution in his laboratory -
The Radio Act
The Radio Act (repealed in 1934) regulates programming, airwaves can only be used with government permission.The Federal Radio Commission is established. -
Theater Television
RKO experiments with theater television bringing up to date news and sportscasts to the movies. -
1st television commercial
Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first commerical and is fined by the FRC. -
CBS experiments television programming
CBS experiments television programming -
W9XK state university of Iowa
1st television broadcast from an educational institution -
Electronic television
Very slow to come to U.S -
Peter Goldmark
Peter Goldmark invents a 343 lines of resultion color tv system. -
War
For he remainder of ww2, all commercial production of tv equipment is banned. -
TV sets
5,343,000 tv sets are in american homes. -
RCA
RCA sells 20000 color sets of tvs and most were 21 inch sized -
Ampex videotape
Ampex introduces the first practical videotape system of broadcast quality. -
Remote control
Robert Adler invents the first practical remote control called the Zenith Space Commander. -
Split-screen broadcast
The first split screen broadcast occurs on the Kennedy - Nixon debates. -
John F. Kennedy
John f kennedy is sworn in to office and is broadcasted on colored tv sets -
The moon
First TV transmission from the moon and 600 million people watch. -
VCR
sony introduced the first betamax format of the vcr and retailed at 1295 dollars -
PBS
First TV network to do all programming via satellite instead of landlines. -
Primestar
Primestar is launched as the first north american DBS service. -
Cable Companies
15 billion dollars spent on wiring tv's -
Created streaming video
victorias secret fashion show is broadcasted online reaching 2 million viewers. -
DVD's take over
home theater experience is revolutionized with DVD's. -
Echostar
echostars dish network went online in the United States -
first 42 inch plasma tv
sells for $15,000 -
HDTV
commercial hdtv sets start to appear in consumer markets -
The first DVR is shipped to homes
Now you can record and pause tv whenever you want. -
Sony
the first commercial LED backlit LCD tv was the sony qualia 005 -
Netflix moves from DVD to streaming
This was a response due to demand form the customers. -
Fade to black
All analog tv's go black and all regular tv's go digital. -
110 million U.S adults
110 million U.S adults watch digital video via a connected tv.