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TV HistoryVladimir Zworykin Demonstrated his iconoscope tube, the first practical television camera tube
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Tv HistoryCharles Jenkins Transmitted the First Long-Distance TV Image
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TV HistoryPhilo Farnsworth First public demonstration of an electronic television system
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Tv History David Sarnoff and RCA First Commercial Television Broadcast (NBC)
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TV HistoryCable Television introduced In 1975, HBO became the first cable TV channel to be broadcast via satellite.
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TV Historythe Words Fair in New York RCA made the first true public demonstration of television
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TV HistoryEarl “Madman” Muntz Created the first Affordable television.
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TV HistoryColor Television Introduced Did not become the standard until the Early 1970’s
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TV HistoryThe 1950’s By the end of the decade, there were 559 stations and nearly 90% of U.S. households had television.
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TV HistoryFirst Satellite Broadcasts AT&T Begins broadcasting internationally.
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TV HistoryFirst home recorder Sony introduces the Betamax tape recorder
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TV HistoryHDTV Developed by Japan Accepted by the F.C.C. in 1996
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TV History First Internet Broadcast ABC World News Now is broadcast over the internet.
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TV HistoryDVD’s Commercially available Only 2% of homes have a dvd player.
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TV HistoryBlu-Ray and HD DVD Introduced Blu-ray eventually wins the market
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TV History
The world’s largest Plasma TV is a 150 inch Plasma TV made by Panasonic, standing 6 ft high and 11 ft wide. -
TV History DTV Becomes Mandatory for national networks On June 12th, the FCC required these networks to transition to Digital Broadcasts.
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TV History
The world’s first 3D LED HDTV released by Samsung (Samsung 3D LED 7000). Announced in February, 2010. LG announced the release of their first 3D LED HDTV, the LG LX9500 in March, 2010. -
TV HistoryThere are 115.9 million homes in the U.S. with at least one TV. • 61% of all TV sets are now HD.
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TV HistoryIn 2012, most TV manufactures released high definition 3D sets. In order to view television in 3D, you must wear modern LCD glasses that lets you view video in clear 3D. (The History of Film, Television & Video).
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TV HistoryFirst broadcast of Duck Dynasty, Dog with a Blog, Gravity Falls, Arrow, The Legend of Korra, Girls, Nashville, The Newsroom, Scandal, and Call the Midwife; Super Bowl XLVI becomes the then most-watched program in the history of American television, with an average of 111.3 million viewers
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From the 1920s to the 2015 the televisoins sizes got bigger. From a 3in screen to ones that are over 80in!
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TV Facts
It is estimated that by the time average American child reach age 14, it sees around 11,000 murders on the television. By the age 18, that number goes to 200,000. -
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Americans annually watch around 250 billion hours of television. -
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Average 65 year old person sees over 2 million TV commercials during his life.