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Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
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RCA began selling television sets with 5 by 12 in (12.7 by 25.4 cm) picture tubes. The company also began broadcasting regular programs, including scenes captured by a mobile unit and, on May 17, 1939,
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TVs went into houses for people in 1939 but in was still in black and white.
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On January 12th, 1950, the general public was introduced to color television for the very first time when CBS demonstrated its “field sequential” color system on eight television sets in the Walker Building, in Washington [1].
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During the first six months of 1954, fewer than 8,500 color television sets were manufactured in the United States [9].
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By 1958, there were an estimated 350,000 color sets in the United States, the bulk of which were manufactured by RCA .That number had jumped to 500,000 by early 1960.The more color sets in use, the more potential eyeballs for color programming and more importantly, from the advertiser’s point of view, color commercials.
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Fujitsu demonstrated a 21-inch hybrid display in 1992 at the University of Illinois at Urbane-Campaign, and then three years later, it introduced the first 42-inch plasma display with a 852x480 resolution. Philips followed Fujitsu's footprint and came out with a plasma display of the same resolution in 1997.
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10.8 million Number of people who tune in to Fear Factor today because TV is addicting to people.
