Professional Documents
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In
Pittsburgh
PA
Electronic TV is
1935 demonstrated to the
press
Television Development
1936
Germany: televises Olympics.
Britain: few hours of regular
programming a day.
1939
The TV is presented at the New
York World’s Fair.
Television Development
1950
1951
• Community
1950 Antenna
Television
• Coaxial cable is
installed in large
1952 cities, reducing
ghosting.
Color Television
1952 1953
Videotaping is
1956 demonstrated
1950’s
Live dramatic series.
1952
Rampant growth in TV, from 108 in ‘52…
1960
…to 522 stations. 90% of homes have TVs.
1960’s
Large variety of TV programs.
Television
1966
1967
Camcorder is
1980 1% of homes
have VCRs.
sold to
consumers
1997
• DVD introduced.
• FCC rules: all U.S. SDTV stations must
be DTV by 2006, now 2009.
1999
• Stations begin broadcasting Digital TV and wide screen
HDTV.
2004
• More than 1000 US TV stations broadcast digital
signal.
• 3 million HDTV sets in homes.
• All manufactured sets 36” and larger must have a
digital tuner.
Digital Television
2009
2006 2010
1000+ U.S. Broadcast TV in 3-D TV sets
digital TV stations U.S. goes all go on sale
on the air. digital. in U.S.
Consumers buy
Most analog TV
HDTV sets in
transmitters shut
significant
down.
numbers.
What about the future?
NTSC : National Television System Committee
SECAM : Sequentiel Couleur avec Mémoire
PAL : Phase Alternation Line