GROUP 2

Leader: Villanueva, Arthur

Members: Role/Contribution

Asis, Japheth Researcher

Macalanda, Jeremy Researcher

Pantino, Ruzzel Pow erpoint

Santos, Jasmine Rachel Pow erpoint

Tanodra, Kierv y Paul Presenter

Vigo, Julianne Presenter

 The Evolution of Television

Mechanical Televisions (1920s)

Before electric telev isions, w e had mechanical telev isions.These

early telev isions started appearing in the early 1800s. They inv olv ed
mechanically scanning images then transmitting those images onto
a screen. Compared to electronic telev isions, they w ere extremely
rudimentary. One of the first mechanical telev isions used a rotating
disk w ith holes arranged in a spiral pattern. This dev ice w as created
independently by tw o inv entors: Scottish inv entor John Logie Baird
and American inv entor Charles Francis Jenkins. Both dev ices w ere
inv ented in the early 1920s.

Electronic Television (1930s)

Electronic telev ision w as first successfully demonstrated in

San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system w as designed by
Philo Taylor Farnsw orth, a 21year-old inv entor who had liv ed
in a house w ithout electricity until he w as 14. While still in
high school, Farnsw orth had begun to conceive of a system
that could capture mov ing images in a form that could be
coded onto radio w aves and then transformed back into a
picture on a screen.

The first image ev er transmitted by telev ision w as a simple line. Later, Farnsw orth w ould famously
transmit a dollar sign using his telev ision after a prospectiv e inv estor asked “When are w e going to
see some dollars in this thing, Farnsw orth?”

Betw een 1926 and 1931, mechanical telev ision inventors continued to
tw eak and test their creations. However, they w ere all doomed to be
obsolete in comparison to modern electrical telev isions: by 1934, all
TVs had been conv erted into the electronic system.
Colored Telev isions (1950s)

The earliest mention of color telev ision w as in a 1904

German patent for a color telev ision system. I n 1925,
Russian inv entor Vladimir K. Zw orykin also filed a patent
disclosure for an all-electronic color telev ision system.
While both of these designs w ere not successful, they w ere
the first documented proposals for color telev ision.

Sometime betw een 1946 and 1950, the research staff of

RCA Laboratories inv ented the w orld's first
electronic, color telev ision system. A successful
color telev ision system based on a system designed by
RCA began commercial broadcasting on December 17,
1953. NBC made the first coast-to-coast color broadcast
w hen it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade on
January 1, 1954.

Although all-electronic color was introduced in the U.S. in 1953, high prices and the scarcity of color
programming greatly slow ed its acceptance in the marketplace. The first national color broadcast
(the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade) occurred on January 1, 1954, but during the follow ing ten
years most netw ork broadcasts, and nearly all local
programming, continued to be in black-and-w hite. I t w as not
until the mid-1960s that color sets started selling in large numbers,
due in part to the color transition of 1965 in w hich it w as
announced that ov er half of all netw ork prime-time
programming w ould be broadcast in color that fall. The first all-
color prime-time season came just one year later. I n 1972, the
last holdout among daytime netw ork programs conv erted to color, resulting in the first completely
all-color netw ork season.
Digital Telev isions (1990s)

Digital telev ision (DTV) is the transmission of audio and v ideo by digitally
processed and multiplexed signal, in contrast to the totally analog and
channel separated signals used by analog telev ision. Digital TV can
support more than one program in the same channel bandw idth. I t is an
innov ative service that represents the first significant evolution in television
technology since color telev ision in the 1950s.

Digital TV's roots hav e been tied v ery closely to the av ailability of inexpensiv e, high-performance
computers. I t w asn't until the 1990s that digital TV became a real possibility.

I n March 1990, w hen it became clear that a digital standard

w as feasible, the FCC made a number of critical decisions.
First, the Commission declared that the new ATV standard
must be more than an enhanced analog signal, but be able
to prov ide a genuine HDTV signal w ith at least tw ice the
resolution of existing telev ision images. Then, to ensure that
v iewers who did not w ish to buy a new digital telev ision set could continue to receiv e conv entional
telev ision broadcasts, it dictated that the new ATV standard must be capable of being "simulcast" on
different channels .The new ATV standard also allow ed the new DTV signal to be based on entirely
new design principles. Although incompatible with the existing NTSC standard, the new DTV standard
w ould be able to incorporate many improv ements.
Smart Telev isions (2000s)

Adv ent of digital telev ision allow ed innov ations like smart
TVs. A smart telev ision, sometimes referred to as connected
TV or hybrid television, is a telev ision set w ith integrated
I nternet and Web 2.0 features, and is an example
of technological conv ergence betw een computers and
telev ision sets and set-top boxes. Besides the traditional functions of telev ision sets and set-top boxes
prov ided through traditional broadcasting media, these dev ices can also prov ide I nternet TV,
online interactiv e media, ov er-the-top content, as w ell as on-demand streaming media, and home
netw orking access. These TVs come pre-loaded w ith an operating system.

I nternet Protocol telev ision (I PTV) is one of the emerging

I nternet telev ision technology standards for use by telev ision
broadcasters. Web telev ision (WebTV) is a term used for
programs created by a w ide v ariety of companies and
indiv iduals for broadcast on I nternet TV.

A first patent w as filed in 1994 (and extended the follow ing

year) for an "intelligent" telev ision system, linked w ith data
processing systems, by means of a digital or analog netw ork. Apart from being linked to data
netw orks, one key point is its ability to automatically dow nload necessary softw are routines,
according to a user's demand, and process their needs.

Major TV manufacturers hav e announced production of smart TVs only, for middle-end and high-end
TVs in 2015
3d Telev isions (2010s)

Stereoscopic 3D television was demonstrated for the first time

on August 10, 1928, by John Logie Baird in his company's
premises at 133 Long Acre, London. Baird pioneered a
v ariety of 3D television systems using electro-mechanical and
cathode-ray tube techniques. The first 3D TV w as produced in 1935. The adv ent of digital telev ision in
the 2000s greatly improv ed 3D TVs.

Although 3D TV sets are quite popular for w atching 3D home media such as on Blu-ray discs, 3D
programming has largely failed to make inroads among the public. Many 3D telev ision channels that
started in the early 2010s w ere shut dow n by the mid-2010s.
UHD and Curved TV (2013 – 2020)

Curved screen TVs w ere introduced to the consumer market in 2013, primarily due to the efforts of
Korean companies Samsung and LG w hile curv ed screen projection displays, such as Cinerama,
hav e been around since the 1950s.

Curv ed screens are marketed as providing an "immersiv e" experience, and allow ing a w ider field of
v iew

4K, also know n as Ultra HD, refers to a TV resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels. That’s four times as many
pixels than in a full HD TV, a total of about 8.3 million pixels. Hav ing so many pixels means a higher
pixel density, and you should hav e a clearer, better defined picture. I t’s not necessarily about
sharpness, but about letting more detail and texture through.