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January 4 John Logier Baird demonstrates ‘zone television’, showing full-length figures and a cricket lesson by Herbert Studwor
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January: Direct Baird Company installs projection television with a 15ft x 12ft screen at the 1,190-seat Marble Arch Pavilion.
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1940: Peter Gold mark invents 343 lines of resolution color television
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1948: Cable television is introduced in Pennsylvania
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Color television introduced in the U.S.
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50% of home TVs are color television sets.
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Giant screen projection television is first marketed.
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There are 900 million television sets in use around the world201 million television sets are in the United States.
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The US switch-off of all analogue terrestrial TV broadcasts is scheduled to begin NO LATER THAN February 17, 2009
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Television signals in both analog and digital formats