Wow, how time flies!
Not only from black and white to color but in wow the days fly by. I didn't realize that it had been so long since my last input. Geez, it seems like it was just yesterday.
I hope you all have enjoyed my blog so far. It has been fun writing it.
Anyway, I found it really surprising, not only that TV (black and white) was invented so very long ago and color was not that far behind it, but was still so far behind when it came to putting it on the market for consumers.
Color TV was demonstrated at the International radio exhibition in Berlin in 1939. In the United States Bell Laboratories demonstrated a a mechanically scanned color TV in June 1929, a year after my husband was born. Electronically scanned color TV was demonstrated February 5, 1940 by RCA. CBS began experimental field tests August 28, 1940 and live cameras by November 12 the same year.
NBC (owned by RCA) had its first field test of color February 20, 1941. (I was still not a spark in any ones eye yet.) CBS started daily field tests June of 1941. The only viewers were limited to RCA and CBS engineers and invited press. Because of World War II all manufacture of television and radio equipment was stopped from April. 22, 1942 to August 20, 1945, so there was no opportunity to introduce the general public to color TV.
After the war, color TV development was dominated by three systems looking for approval by the FCC as color broadcasting standard for the U.S.: CBS, RCA and CTI. (All were incompatible with existing black and white sets.) RCA's became compatible in 1949.
CBS gave the first demonstrations of color to the general public January 12, 1950 on a daily basis for an hour daily from Mondays thru Saturdays and ran for the remainder of the month in Washington, D.C. in a public building on 16-inch color receivers. The FCC formally approved the CBS system as the U.S. color broadcasting standard October 11, 1950. RCA and CTI's systems were found by the FCC to have to many technical problems at the time. The worlds first RCA broadcast was June 25, 1951.
The first color TV (CBS-Columbia) sets had problems and were pulled off the market after only 100 were sold. The National Television System Committed during 1950 and 1953 developed a color system compatible with existing black and white sets and passed FCC quality standards. RCA developed the hardware. Kukla, Fran and Ollie (an NBC episode) was the first publicly TB broadcast program using NTSC compatible color system on August 30, 1953. The first coast-to-coast color broadcast by NBC was covering the January 1, 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Well continue this really spell binding journey next time. Have a wonderful day!
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Black & White or Color?
Hi guys!
This is just a little break in the information highway that I have started in the TV saga.
I don't know about you, but even though most people think that color is the only way to go no matter what you are watching, I think that maybe it depends on what you watched growing up.
There are some classics that I watched growing up like "Miracle on 47th Street", which was in black and white, and although I have seen the new colorized version which is great, it just doesn't have the same drama as seeing it in black and white.
How about another classic in black and white "Casablanca". I don't know if there is a colorized version of it or not, but I can't even imagine watching it in anything but black and white.
There are even some commercials now that are in mostly black and white and then show the product in color to make a dramatic statement.
If you are old enough to have kids that haven't seen any black and white movies (maybe you haven't seen any either), rent one, pop some corn, have a family night and enjoy!
Color is great, but sometimes... nothing says it like Black & White, Yeh!
This is just a little break in the information highway that I have started in the TV saga.
I don't know about you, but even though most people think that color is the only way to go no matter what you are watching, I think that maybe it depends on what you watched growing up.
There are some classics that I watched growing up like "Miracle on 47th Street", which was in black and white, and although I have seen the new colorized version which is great, it just doesn't have the same drama as seeing it in black and white.
How about another classic in black and white "Casablanca". I don't know if there is a colorized version of it or not, but I can't even imagine watching it in anything but black and white.
There are even some commercials now that are in mostly black and white and then show the product in color to make a dramatic statement.
If you are old enough to have kids that haven't seen any black and white movies (maybe you haven't seen any either), rent one, pop some corn, have a family night and enjoy!
Color is great, but sometimes... nothing says it like Black & White, Yeh!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Journey of TV Continues
Hi Guys,
If you are super interested and want to fill in all of the really technical stuff or just the holes in this little TV Journey, I am giving you the link to read up on it to your little heart's content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_TV#Electronic_television
If you want to continue on the shorter journey with me, we'll go on where we left off.
I hadn't realized that RCA was in on it from practically the very beginning, or at least from where we as consumers knew it.
As with so many things there was a patent suit that ended up with RCA pay for license payments for patents by Philo Farnsworth (they already had purchased Westinghouse's patent of the cathode ray tube) who transmitted the first live human images by his television system in 1929 (not yet to the public).
As I said before, my husband saw TV for the first time at the San Francisco World Fair when he was a kid, and had one in his shop before he had one personally.
I remember the first TV my family ever had was in 1957. I was ten. We were moving from Rogue River, OR to San Jose, CA and my dad was buying us a three bedroom trailer to live in and said he would buy it if they threw in the TV. I don't remember how big it was, I don't imagine the screen was very bit, but I didn't care. I remember the main thing was I got to watch the Mickey Mouse Club when I got home from school.
My husband said that when TV was introduced in the Bay Area (California), there was only one station and it was in 1949, (Channel 5, which was an independent station that eventually became CBS, Westinghouse).
It was years before color TV was available to the public, but believe it or not there was a patent application in Russian in 1889 for a mechanically-scanned color system and the first world's color transmission was demonstrated on July 3, 1928.
We'll start with that exciting exploration next time. Have a wonderful day!!
See ya!
If you are super interested and want to fill in all of the really technical stuff or just the holes in this little TV Journey, I am giving you the link to read up on it to your little heart's content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_TV#Electronic_television
If you want to continue on the shorter journey with me, we'll go on where we left off.
I hadn't realized that RCA was in on it from practically the very beginning, or at least from where we as consumers knew it.
As with so many things there was a patent suit that ended up with RCA pay for license payments for patents by Philo Farnsworth (they already had purchased Westinghouse's patent of the cathode ray tube) who transmitted the first live human images by his television system in 1929 (not yet to the public).
As I said before, my husband saw TV for the first time at the San Francisco World Fair when he was a kid, and had one in his shop before he had one personally.
I remember the first TV my family ever had was in 1957. I was ten. We were moving from Rogue River, OR to San Jose, CA and my dad was buying us a three bedroom trailer to live in and said he would buy it if they threw in the TV. I don't remember how big it was, I don't imagine the screen was very bit, but I didn't care. I remember the main thing was I got to watch the Mickey Mouse Club when I got home from school.
My husband said that when TV was introduced in the Bay Area (California), there was only one station and it was in 1949, (Channel 5, which was an independent station that eventually became CBS, Westinghouse).
It was years before color TV was available to the public, but believe it or not there was a patent application in Russian in 1889 for a mechanically-scanned color system and the first world's color transmission was demonstrated on July 3, 1928.
We'll start with that exciting exploration next time. Have a wonderful day!!
See ya!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
When Did The Idea of TV Start
You know guys, until I decided to look into TV and when was it invented I had no idea that the idea and conception was sooo.. long ago.
I talked to my husband about it as he had a radio shop when he was in high school and he said that the first TV he had seen was at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1939. He had never fully delved into it either but learned a lot when he became a TV technician in 1949.
Anyway the origins can be tracked back to a discovery called photoconductivity of an element called selenium in 1873. See! I said it was a really long time ago. Then a guy invented what they called a scanning disk in 1884, and then the invention of an image dissector in 1927. For the real detailed skinny check out Wikipedia.
The very first patented electromechanical television system was in 1884. Who knew!! It was first read about at the International World Fair in Paris in 1900. Inventor's all over were experimenting with something called a cathode ray tube and using this created the first TV's that RCA purchased the patents for.
Well kiddies, we'll continue on from here in the next installment. Chao!
I talked to my husband about it as he had a radio shop when he was in high school and he said that the first TV he had seen was at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1939. He had never fully delved into it either but learned a lot when he became a TV technician in 1949.
Anyway the origins can be tracked back to a discovery called photoconductivity of an element called selenium in 1873. See! I said it was a really long time ago. Then a guy invented what they called a scanning disk in 1884, and then the invention of an image dissector in 1927. For the real detailed skinny check out Wikipedia.
The very first patented electromechanical television system was in 1884. Who knew!! It was first read about at the International World Fair in Paris in 1900. Inventor's all over were experimenting with something called a cathode ray tube and using this created the first TV's that RCA purchased the patents for.
Well kiddies, we'll continue on from here in the next installment. Chao!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
I'm Back with the iPhone
Hi Guys!
Sorry, life kind of put things on hold for a few days.
Any way, where were we. Oh yeh, That little gadget called an iPhone. It has all the features of a camera phone and and an iPod rolled into one. As I said before the keyboard is a virtual one and takes up the bottom half of the large 3.5 window when you need it. It offers many of the services you can get on a computer. E-mail, web browsing and local Wi-Fi access. It has four bands for roaming, it supports international capability and has increased data transmission rates and improved data transmission reliability. It has the technology of a 3G network but is generally classified as a 2.75G bacause it is slower.
WOW! How super is that! I myself can't imagine needing this type of technology, but for those people that are actually on the clock 24/7 this must be one of the best things ever.
I am sure there are people that have bought these phones that really have no use for all of the features, but just want the latest of whatever there is out there in portable technology. I rarely have need for the features on the camera phone that I have let alone would I ever have need of all of the features on an iPhone. But hey! If you can afford it, I guess, why not. I might even NEED one someday (ha! ha!)if I ever become a successful on-line bussiness guru.
So, if you have the desire or need for a iphone, go for it.
We will look into where we have come from in the area's of TV's since day one to now and what has developed to go along with them. This really goes into a big diverse arena. Stick with me and we'll start a new adventure next time. Enjoy, whatever you day with the new time change has in store for you. Remember to change your clocks to a hour ahead, of course unless you live in AZ.
Next time!
Sorry, life kind of put things on hold for a few days.
Any way, where were we. Oh yeh, That little gadget called an iPhone. It has all the features of a camera phone and and an iPod rolled into one. As I said before the keyboard is a virtual one and takes up the bottom half of the large 3.5 window when you need it. It offers many of the services you can get on a computer. E-mail, web browsing and local Wi-Fi access. It has four bands for roaming, it supports international capability and has increased data transmission rates and improved data transmission reliability. It has the technology of a 3G network but is generally classified as a 2.75G bacause it is slower.
WOW! How super is that! I myself can't imagine needing this type of technology, but for those people that are actually on the clock 24/7 this must be one of the best things ever.
I am sure there are people that have bought these phones that really have no use for all of the features, but just want the latest of whatever there is out there in portable technology. I rarely have need for the features on the camera phone that I have let alone would I ever have need of all of the features on an iPhone. But hey! If you can afford it, I guess, why not. I might even NEED one someday (ha! ha!)if I ever become a successful on-line bussiness guru.
So, if you have the desire or need for a iphone, go for it.
We will look into where we have come from in the area's of TV's since day one to now and what has developed to go along with them. This really goes into a big diverse arena. Stick with me and we'll start a new adventure next time. Enjoy, whatever you day with the new time change has in store for you. Remember to change your clocks to a hour ahead, of course unless you live in AZ.
Next time!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
How About That iPhone
Hi Guys!
Well I thought maybe you might like to find out with me, something about the iPhone. Remember when they first came out with this new phenomenon? There was so much hype about it. With Apple having come out with the iPod, I guess it was just a matter of time, and yep, last year here came the iPhone. It started out at $500. WOW! That is a lot of bucks and yet people were standing in line (literally) to buy them. (Of course, it really hit the fan when several months later they brought the price down to $300 because China came out with a knock off cheaper.)
I got really confused the other day, because I didn't know what commercial I was watching. At first I thought it was an iPhone commercial, but it turned out to be the most advanced of the iPods. Anyway, apparently it is like a cell phone and computer combined. (Do you think grandpa could handle this one? I am having a hard time with it myself.)
How many years has it been since the phone went from crank to a standard rotater number selection, to push button number selection to a cell phone (a mega size phone) to a cell phone that gets smaller every year to the iPhone? In relative time, not long at all. One hundred years is nothing in the life span of invention. Consider how long it took to go from the crank to the cell phone. Then when the cell phones got smaller and we went from flip phone to the iPhone, it was like a blink of the eye.
The iPhone has one button for "home. It has a 3.5-inch color screen. The screen covers most of the face of the phone and is also a "multi-touch" display. It shows different controls depending on what kind of thing your doing. It actually has a keyboard that comes up on the bottom of the screen to type a text message using the phone part or e-mail using the computer part. Being the screen is bigger than the keyboard on any other kind of phone you have less finger cramping. (I don't text and when I see kids doing it and so fast too, I think, arthritis in the fingers when they get older. That's probably because I am older already and feeling the crampy fingers from years on the computer, and that has a big keyboard.)
Well, my crampy old fingers need a rest, so we'll continue with the iPhone next time. Until then have a good one!
Well I thought maybe you might like to find out with me, something about the iPhone. Remember when they first came out with this new phenomenon? There was so much hype about it. With Apple having come out with the iPod, I guess it was just a matter of time, and yep, last year here came the iPhone. It started out at $500. WOW! That is a lot of bucks and yet people were standing in line (literally) to buy them. (Of course, it really hit the fan when several months later they brought the price down to $300 because China came out with a knock off cheaper.)
I got really confused the other day, because I didn't know what commercial I was watching. At first I thought it was an iPhone commercial, but it turned out to be the most advanced of the iPods. Anyway, apparently it is like a cell phone and computer combined. (Do you think grandpa could handle this one? I am having a hard time with it myself.)
How many years has it been since the phone went from crank to a standard rotater number selection, to push button number selection to a cell phone (a mega size phone) to a cell phone that gets smaller every year to the iPhone? In relative time, not long at all. One hundred years is nothing in the life span of invention. Consider how long it took to go from the crank to the cell phone. Then when the cell phones got smaller and we went from flip phone to the iPhone, it was like a blink of the eye.
The iPhone has one button for "home. It has a 3.5-inch color screen. The screen covers most of the face of the phone and is also a "multi-touch" display. It shows different controls depending on what kind of thing your doing. It actually has a keyboard that comes up on the bottom of the screen to type a text message using the phone part or e-mail using the computer part. Being the screen is bigger than the keyboard on any other kind of phone you have less finger cramping. (I don't text and when I see kids doing it and so fast too, I think, arthritis in the fingers when they get older. That's probably because I am older already and feeling the crampy fingers from years on the computer, and that has a big keyboard.)
Well, my crampy old fingers need a rest, so we'll continue with the iPhone next time. Until then have a good one!
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