The Past and the Path Forward in the life of a Television

Philo Taylor Farnsworth

When Philo Taylor Farnsworth transmitted the first image on his invention, it was a simple line. With the shift towards the dollar sign, he was asked by an investor “When are we going to see some dollars for real?” Philo Taylor Farnsworth was just 21.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth was still in high school, when he had imagined a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen.

Farnsworth was a complete visionary.

The evolution of Television (TV)

Acceptance of RCA’s Colour series

The colour television series were an instant hit in the 1960’s decade. It was during then that prime television era bloomed. The color broadcasting was initially given to RCA. RCA technology televisions were compatible with the CBS color system. The RCA were a fascinating find during the 1960s and 1970s.

Auguste and Louis Lumière

The French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière introduced the motion picture idea which was a combination of camera and projector. Naming it as Cinematographe, this was absolutely a revolutionary invention and is the sole reason for the existence of movie viewing today. Using Cinematographe, Auguste and Louis Lumière worked towards inventing a technology that could continuously feed film through a movie camera and project it to more than one viewer at a time.

chronological evolution of television

Based on the concept of Thomas Alva Edison’s Kinetoscope camera which was invented four years prior to the Lumière brothers, this Cinematographe was more compact and weighed less than Thomas Alva Edison’s invention. There were far more efficiency measures including reduced movie making costs by utilizing Cinematographe invented by Auguste and Louis Lumière. Auguste and Louis Lumière were the reason for the world’s first public motion picture screening.

Netflix

With 33 million subscribers and counting for every passing day, Netflix began its humble beginning with a mere $40 by Reed Hastings. Beginning with TV series purchase, Netflix has come a long way. The main success factor of Netflix is the largest categorization of movies done by their internal teams for movie buffs to watch films and tag every aspect of each movie from director to actor to genre. Also, it is quite a known fact that Netflix uses the “Netflix Quantum Theory.” A whopping 76,897 genres have been designed for giving the best movie experience for Netflix users.

The current TV technology bears few resemblances to the traditional TV technology. With the introduction of streaming services, the trend is shifting towards watching it on wide range of devices than the original methods of viewing.

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