TV

By cwichert

  • World Fair

    Russian Constantin Perskyi introduces the word "television" at the 1st International Congress of Electricity at
    the World's Fair in Paris.

  • First moving television pictures

    In England, John Logie Baird demonstrates the first moving television pictures via a mechanical system based
    on Nipkow's disk; they were recognizable human faces in 1925 and moving objects in 1926.

  • First electronic television image

    Philo Farnsworth transmits the first electronic television image and applies for a patent on the first complete
    electronic system, the Image Dissector.

  • First mechanical television set goes on sale

    GE sells one in a fancy cabinet and in England, Baird sets are available

  • First TV studio

  • First TV commercial

    Charles Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial

  • 40,000 TV's

    By the end of 1931 there were nearly 40,000 television sets in the US

  • Program televised from 600 miles away

    JOhn Logie Baird introduces a programme which is televised from Braodcasting House, London to Areana Theatre, Cpenhagen, Denmark.

  • First TV serrvice with 3h programming/day

    BBC debuts the world's first tv service with three hours of programminga day.

  • Olympics viewed on TV

    Berliin Olympic Games are seen by 150,000 people in public television rooms in Berlin.

  • 343 lines of color TV

    Peter Goldmark invents 343 lines of resolution color television.

  • 600 line HDTV

    John Logie Baird, now working on his own, demonstrates a 600 line HDTV colour system for TV

  • First color TV broadcasting system

    Peter Goldmark, working for CBS, demonstrated his mechanical color television system to the FCC - the first to introduce a braodcasting color TV system

  • Cable introduced in Pennsylvania

  • Projection television

    Philips experiments and produces projection television

  • First remote control

    Robert Adler invents Zenith Space Commander which is the first practical remote corntrol.

  • First satellite to carry TV braodcasts around the world

    AT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV Braudcacsts and television braodcasts are relayed around the world.

  • Color TV introduced to the US

  • TV transmission from the moon watched by 600 million people

  • 50% of homes have color TV

  • First video cassette recorder

    Sony produces the first VCR recoder

  • CNN is launched

  • Dolby surround sound for home TV sests is introduced

  • 900 million TV sets in use in the world

  • Flat screen takes over

    Flat screens were much more popular than bulky TV's

  • Netflix goes public

  • TV signals both analog and digital formats

  • Bluray player is released

  • HDTV mandate

    American made the switch to all-digital tv viewing

  • SmartTV was released

    TV's with internet access and voice activated features

  • Apple TV

  • 98% of households have at least 1 TV