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3rd Aug 2018, 7:30 pm | #1 |
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TV is a lot more modern than you thought...
According to a special "British Inventions" feature on MSN today, JLB successfully demonstrated a working television system in 1962...
(See picture.)
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3rd Aug 2018, 8:10 pm | #2 |
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You learn something new every day!
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3rd Aug 2018, 8:11 pm | #3 |
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Amazing, considering he died around the corner from here at Bexhill in June 1946. He was due to demonstrate his new CRT electronic colour TV system that month for the Press in London but sadly, his health finally gave out. It's relatively little known that he had a "solid state" [Selenium Cells I think] Colour System on the go [in Cinemas] before the Second World War-1935, showing outside "Broadcasts" brought in over telephone lines!
A mistake in the very first item out of nineteen! I suspect the Typo is 1922 but actually, the course of History could have really been different, if he'd lived longer and not suffered so badly at the hands of Lord Reith! Dave Last edited by dave walsh; 3rd Aug 2018 at 8:22 pm. |
3rd Aug 2018, 8:42 pm | #4 |
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JLB was normally good as an ideas man but could really have done with some serious backing by one of the big electrical companies.
Clive Sinclair also gets into this area. |
3rd Aug 2018, 9:06 pm | #5 |
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I wonder if the 6 and the 2 are mixed making it 1926
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3rd Aug 2018, 9:11 pm | #6 |
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Yes you are right Richard but substitute the establishment for companies. Baird was bullied by Reith at school and excluded by him later in life. Reith's own daughter wrote a Biograpy and it's not that complementary
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3rd Aug 2018, 10:13 pm | #7 |
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Yes, a typo. Takes some doing to occur in two places on the slide.
Of course, the site is just clickbait, and contains nothing intelligent. I am convinced the typo was deliberate, so it would be shared, and drive more people to see the ads. (Like I just did). Only got myself to blame, the OP wisely didn't provide a direct link.
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4th Aug 2018, 8:22 am | #8 |
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Blimey, 1962, well I never did.
And don't the viewers look thoroughly entertained |
4th Aug 2018, 8:43 am | #9 |
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I didn't look like that in 1962.
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4th Aug 2018, 9:16 am | #10 |
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I looked like this in 1962. Maybe I invented television!
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6th Aug 2018, 8:22 am | #11 |
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Who cares about the dates, it's all Old Skool retro, innit
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6th Aug 2018, 8:37 am | #12 |
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There is now a generation who have never seen a CRT set. I watched an episode of 4 in a bed the other day and a lad who was in his late teens to early 20s looked at a TV video combi in one of the rooms tapped the back cover curiously and remarked "What's that on the back of the TV?"
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6th Aug 2018, 8:54 am | #13 |
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The change from CRT to LCD was fast, far faster than any previous technology changes.
Colour TVs were very desirable, but they were much more expensive than monochrome sets, so there was a huge overlap period. Expensive to the end user and expensive to manufacture. Early motor cars were extremely expensive. Horses are self-replicating (it's the upkeep that costs the money) The overlap lasted decades. We're still in the overlap of wire and radio-connected phones. The CRT to LCD change was instantaneous by comparison. Modern accountancy and management has slashed any slack out of systems. Globalisation has put everyone in the same boat. The moment LCDs became cheaper to make than CRTs (including shipping weight costs) then everyone making sets had to change overnight. Fashion and trendiness sold the sets, but the cost was the enabler and the big push. David
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I wonder what I was watching as a young child if television hadn't been invented...
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6th Aug 2018, 10:29 am | #15 |
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Fake news!!!
In reply to post #13, I would argue the very big push came when digital arrived. It was the excuse the more careful customer needed to change as, understandably, they didn't want all the trouble with digiboxes and so on. It was fortuitous for the industry that the flat panel TV was mature technology by that time in a similar way that the colour boom happened in the early Seventies. |
6th Aug 2018, 11:05 am | #16 |
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Most of the examples above are existing technology applied to other uses supported by improved manufacturing technology.
Radio from 1925-1930 sees a very quick evolution of valve technology as well as consumer uptake. 30 years later, transistors did the same. |
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A magazine intended for older people had a page recalling 1967. According to the article BBC 1 and ITV went colour in the November that year with BBC 2 following a month later. Clearly, the author got the November date right, but not the year! |
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7th Aug 2018, 1:04 pm | #18 |
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David is right about the speed of change but everything is faster. Soap Operas have major disasters/court cases compressed into one or two episode these days not "real time" as they say in the Computer World. CRT sets were dumped at an accompanying rate as with the car trade-in and crush schemes! Previously old technologies like TV's, lingered on in cellars and attics as we know! Not now, we can afford to dump everything [or so we imagine].
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8th Aug 2018, 10:07 am | #19 |
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The fastest change I have experienced in my working life was that to band 3 in 1955 when ITV started. We were working late into the night fitting band 3 converters in the few weeks before Croydon went on the air and within a year or so most people had either a band 3 converter or a new all channel set. I think it was a matter of pride.
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10th Aug 2018, 8:41 am | #20 |
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Or possibly a matter of Double Your Money!
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