The History of TELEVISION

What time were you born? the time with a rotating disk with holes in it to scan the scene and generate the video signal. Or the time radio was the main television set for us. Or were you there the time we used to huddle around flickering black-and-white screens, squinting through static, just to catch a glimpse of a broadcast? This isn’t just the ending, the Television set has evolved into the modern set we know today. Colored, lean as glass, YouTube or Netflix can be streamed, can browse the web and now you can cast your phone on the television screen. How did we go from wobbly antennas and tiny screens to streaming shows while sitting in traffic? Welcome to the wild, weird, and wonderful ride through the history of television—because this story is anything but boring!
Just as we learn about the generation of computers. The same goes for the TV. It can be easy to forget television wasn't always so technically advanced and popular. It started off as a fuzzy, flickering blob. The earliest iterations were small but bulky, a world away from today's ultra-thin screens. Yet they were the first step in a continuing journey of development. First, engineers and scientists had to discover how to produce moving images at all; the first photograph wasn't invented until 1822. And, as with most technological discoveries, several unconnected people were working on this problem at once, yet they all ultimately converged on the technology that we know today as television.

[LostsTVandRadio]

My grandparents in Gloucester (UK) opted for cable TV in 1953 in order to watch the coronation.
The enterprising local furniture & electrical store had erected a tall aerial on its roof and then distributed the signal to local homes by cable because the city was in a poor signal area. Maybe not the first cable TV system in the world, but definitely one of the earliest!

[jimsimpson]

If you still have a tube tv - you've got a collectors item now.

[drbluzer]

As televisions evolved, the job of tv repairman has nearly disappeared . I'm in my early
70's and I still remember those old tube - type televisions that took about a minute to
come on as the vacuum tubes had to warm up before you could see a picture and
hear sound . In a way this tested the patience of both parents and kids .
The first early tv sets only had VHF ( very high frequency ) channels 2 - 13
( without a "channel 1" : used for "police", "marine" and early ham radio channels ) .
you had a choice of only two channels ( three if you were lucky ) and all stations
signed off shortly after midnight . There was no such thing as 24 hour broadcasting .
I lived in Louisville, Kentucky and we had channel 3 and channel 11 at the time .
Then came UHF ( ultra high frequency ), which added channels 14 to 69 to tv sets .
We then had a newer channel 32 in Louisville . Now there were three channels !
Some time in the late 1950's to early 1960's color tv's were available, but they were very
expensive at the time ! My uncle paid over $800 for his RCA color tv !
In the late 70's to early 80's, tv's were "INSTANT ON" as transistorized sets replaced
vacuum tube tv sets . Also various control knobs disappeared as phase - locked
loops ( PLL 's ) were incorporated which got rid of controls as "VERTICAL HOLD",
"HORIZONTAL HOLD", VERTICAL SIZE, etc. .
Sometime in the 2000's the tv signal changed from analog to digital and you had to
buy a digital converter or replace your tv . Finally the CRT ( cathode ray tube ) was
eliminated and we now have flat screen televisions . TV's have become virtually
"disposable" as the cost to repair one exceeds the price of a new one . I might add
that finding a tv repairman is practically non - existent .

[drbluzer]

I joined the Navy in 1983 and I got stationed in Spain in 1985 . The Spanish had a "joke"
about Americans, in which they said "Americans can't count!" "If you don't believe me,
look at the first channel on their tv's !" ( note : there is no "CHANNEL 1" ! ) I had to laugh
at that one !

[DavidChrisCastillo-imwg]

By May 1973, we had cable television.

[UPCM]

Well made video, good narration, I like that you mentioned there where several people thinking of creating the same invention, Television. But you did make a few mistakes. 1. you forgot to mention Mr. Farnsworth who invented the vacuum tube that made analog TV possible. 2. yes, people were starting to buy TVs in the late 1940's but TV really took off in the 1950's
3. color tv & tv remotes were available since the 1950's not the 1970's. Color tv's and remote controls were more available in the late 60's early 70's because Color TVs with remote control were more affordable. 4. Flatscreens were perfected in the 1990's but became more mass produced and more affordable in the 2000's.

[tobinatorstark]

What about philo farnsworth involvement

[UrbanoDagrippino]

Don't forget tv devices got smaller

[Nancy-yqn]

My father told me the first time he saw a tv was in tavern in Chicago, as they were the only places that had them he said they were the size of a small suitcase

[toptohyekoms]

My tube tv just worth a bucket of chickenjoys!

[rebel]

In you're history why didn't you mention Philo T Farnsworth?

[night-x]

I can't say that digital signals are better than analog signals since digital has the shortest range that even a standard CB unit has a longer range.

[TheSpaceAdventurer]

Officially the first viewer of any video on this channel.

[vanzzini]

i dont know if its the tone, the speed, the voice, the script, The narrative of the video, the background music, made my head hurt. Not pleasing or informative. The video didnt tell me anything that we all know by now.

[mstcrow]

Hit and miss. And all radio signals are analog. Radio is a wave, not binary. It's that now digital information is encoded within the signal for digital TV broadcasting. There's a demodulator in your TV (yes, the dem part of modem).

[juliocesarpereira]

I find this use of stock images insulting as if we're not able to imagine something that is being told. Please, redo this.

[glennso]

The quality of the picture is very good but the quality of the program sucks. Now all we have are programs like The View, and other crappy programs.🤮