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75th Anniversary of Television

Posted by michael on from the gilligan-and-maryann-still-not-rescued dept.

SpiceWare writes "In the summer of '21, Philo T. Farnsworth was struck by an inspiration after plowing a field. He transmitted the first television image six years later on September 7, 1927."

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  1. Well Happy Birthday!... by Cyno01 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    you wonderful box whos warming glowing warming glow i bask in almost as much as this crt in front of me right now

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    "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
  2. Television and the radio spectrum by minesweeper · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    As my EE professor told the class earlier this semester, it's a shame that broadcast television eats up such large chunks of frequency in the radio spectrum, a total range of over 400 MHz. Since almost all televisions are tethered anyway (by their power cords), the television signal should just be delivered over land wires. Frequencies in the radio spectrum, a finite resource, should be allocated to truly wireless devices, he believes. Of course, that means that everyone would have to pay for basic cable just to watch the Simpsons.

    Just an interesting thought about the legacy of broadcast television...

  3. Re:Yanks and Yuropeans by DoomPlague · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What you fail to notice is that its mainly being done by 1 American. Not the whole country. And the European representatives here arent exactly "diplomatic."

    Believe it or not, Americans do not spend their time thinking about how they are better than everyone else and putting down people in other nations. If anything, Americans tend to view things only within their own borders until the time comes to expand. I wouldn't call this a good trait, though, but personally I've found that Europeans are more aggressive towards Americans than vice-versa. It seems that Europeans are always the first to bash the US. Maybe that's only the sense I get from websites like this but polls dont seem to indicate too much dislike for Europeans within the US.

  4. Re:Nothing matches dresden or hiroshima by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    don't pull that Dresden shit on us. The London Blitz was all the excuse you'd ever need for Dresden. If you add in Southampton, Coventry and Plymouth then I think they got off lightly by being allowed to live at all after trying to enslave the whole fucking continent. And if you think we British are still pissed off at the Nazis, try a Russian or a Pole for size.

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