The Metamorphosis Tale Of Television Sets

By Norbert Spake


The era of big box type monochromatic television is history now. The new 3D and digital televisions have replaced them. Television brings the whole world in to your living rooms. Since we are living in the age of information, having a television set at home has become a necessity. The technology behind TVs has transformed a great deal over the years.

A scientist by name Karl Braun who was the inventor of cathode ray oscilloscope, paved the way for the development of television in 1897. However, the invention of TV is accredited to John Baird who came out with the initial model back in 1922 which reflected light to show pictures This television was designed on Paul Nipkow's principle of transmitting images and scanning in which arrays of transparent rods were used to transmit images.

After that first breakthrough, there was a continuous and steady development in modernizing the television. It was in the 1930s that television took the form of a huge box. Even then, the screens were only one fourth of the entire size of the box. Live telecast became possible. It was monochromatic and it was not until December 17th 1953 that a colored television came in to being.

In 1956, for the first time, remote control was released in to the market. It was dubbed "Lazy Bones". Once only affordable by the rich and wealthy, televisions came within a middle class man's reach soon after the second world war and continue to be an appliance that holds a lot of value in today's fast paced life.

Plasma televisions were conceptualized as early as 1964. It was the brainchild of three scientists, Robert Willson, Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow. The initial plasma display monitors was designed by them. LCDs and LEDs came in to the market much later.

The present day LCD and LED televisions, which utilize liquid crystals for image transmission, boast of crisp and clear pictures. The older CRT models are pretty much extinct. There is a lot of development in the plasma televisions arena. The latest variants employ plasma cells, which happen to be a mixture of noble gases and mercury and boast of better image qualities as compared to LCDs. The 3D televisions have now come into being which helps the user to view 3D pictures without the usual viewing glasses. In the year 2009, for the first time, a 3D serial was broadcasted.

The technical minds on the globe are not content with the 3D television. They are now working on producing interactive television and new models of digital television. Judging by the way television has evolved so far, it will not be surprising if television becomes wafer thin and transparent in the near future.




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