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television was launched in 1923 worldwide
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The first practical use of television was in Germany. Regular television broadcasts began in Germany in 1929
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Television was commercially available since the late 1930s
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In 1936, Kálmán Tihanyi described the principle of plasma television, the first flat panel system
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in 1936 the Olympic Games in Berlin were broadcast to television stations in Berlin and Leipzig where the public could view the games live.
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A family watching TV together in 1958
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since the 1970s the availability of video cassettes, laserdiscs, DVDs and now Blu-ray Discs, have resulted in the television set frequently being used for viewing recorded as well as broadcast material