Television is 100 years old today
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Television is 100 years old today
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#2This is interesting. John Logie Baird did in fact demonstrate something that looked like TV, but the technology was a dead end.
Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a competing technology a few years later, but every TV today is based on his technology.
So, who actually invented Television?
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#3High definition is nearly 90 years old? I guess their definition of high is quite low by more modern standards.
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#4Thank you Mr. Farnsworth.
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#5This is interesting. John Logie Baird did in fact demonstrate something that looked like TV, but the technology was a dead end. Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a competing technology a few years later, but every TV today is based on his technology. So, who actually invented Television?
There were a great many small breakthroughs over time. Where you draw the line is up to you.
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#6This is interesting. John Logie Baird did in fact demonstrate something that looked like TV, but the technology was a dead end. Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a competing technology a few years later, but every TV today is based on his technology. So, who actually invented Television?
For what it’s worth, Philo Farnsworth and John Logie Baird were friendly with each other. I was lucky to know Philo’s wife Pem very well in the last part of her life, and she spoke highly of Baird as a person.
David Sarnoff and RCA was an entirely different matter, of course…
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#7This is interesting. John Logie Baird did in fact demonstrate something that looked like TV, but the technology was a dead end. Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a competing technology a few years later, but every TV today is based on his technology. So, who actually invented Television?
I had a communications theory class in college that addressed "vestigal sideband modulation," which I believe was implemented by Farnsworth. I think this is a critical aspect to the introduction of television technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation#Sup...
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#8High definition is nearly 90 years old? I guess their definition of high is quite low by more modern standards.
Going from 30 lines to 300 lines is a big leap!
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#9This is interesting. John Logie Baird did in fact demonstrate something that looked like TV, but the technology was a dead end. Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a competing technology a few years later, but every TV today is based on his technology. So, who actually invented Television?
Farnsworth…
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#10Odd we never adapted to it.
Video has a strange hypnotic power over most people and messages seem to bypass normal mental defenses.