Television

Iconoscope tube

1923

Vladimir Zworykin demonstrated his first iconoscope tube, the first practical television camera tube

First long-distance TV image

1925

Charles Jenkins transmitted the first long-distance TV image

First public demonstration of an electronic television system

1927

Philo Farnsworth - First public demonstration of an electronic television system

First commercial television broadcast

Jul 7, 1936

David Sarnoff and RCA

RCA made the first true public demonstration of television

1939

The words fair in New York

First affordable television created

1947

Earl ''Madman'' Muntz created the first affordable television

Cable television introduced

1948

90% of U.S. households had television

1950

Colour television introduced

1953

first satellite broadcasts

1962

First home recorder

1976

Sony introduced the Betamax tape recorder

HDTV developed by Japan

1981

First internet broadcast

1994

DVD's commercially available

1998

only 2% of homes had a dvd player

Blu-Ray and HD DVD Introduced

2004

Blu-Ray eventually wins the market

DTV becomes mandatory for national networks

2009