History of TV
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | The human body is a marvellous thing. The very fact that we have two eyes means that we view everything in three dimensions, a talent that cannot be overstated. However, for years, television engineers have been trying to develop ways that we can trick our brains into thinking that we can see a three dimensional image from a two-dimensional screen. And now it’s the Next Big Thing in TVs. More »
Television In The Third Dimension
12:00PM Nick Broughall | The human body is a marvellous thing. The very fact that we have two eyes means that we view everything in three dimensions, a talent that cannot be overstated. However, for years, television engineers have been trying to develop ways that we can trick our brains into thinking that we can see a three dimensional image from a two-dimensional screen. And now it’s the Next Big Thing in TVs. More » 
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | LCD’s Achilles’ heel has always been its ability to show fast moving images. Watching sports or fast-paced action films on an early LCD screen was terrible, thanks to the technology’s inadequate refresh rate. But just like introducing LED backlighting helped LCD display blacks better and more vivid colours, the introduction of 100Hz technology went a long way to eliminating the motion judder caused by fast-moving pictures. More »
100Hz: Saving LCDs From Motion Judder Since 2006
12:00PM Nick Broughall | LCD’s Achilles’ heel has always been its ability to show fast moving images. Watching sports or fast-paced action films on an early LCD screen was terrible, thanks to the technology’s inadequate refresh rate. But just like introducing LED backlighting helped LCD display blacks better and more vivid colours, the introduction of 100Hz technology went a long way to eliminating the motion judder caused by fast-moving pictures. More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Up until recently, LCDs just couldn’t compete with plasmas when it came to showing blacks or colours. They weren’t just bad, either: they sucked, at least in comparison to plasma. But then came LED backlighting, and things changed. More »
LED Backlighting Is LCD’s Trump Card
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Up until recently, LCDs just couldn’t compete with plasmas when it came to showing blacks or colours. They weren’t just bad, either: they sucked, at least in comparison to plasma. But then came LED backlighting, and things changed. More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Back in October 2006, right before they listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, a company called Arasor held a press conference in Sydney announcing that the future of television had arrived, and that future was lasers. Arasor claimed that an optical chip they made could enable TV manufacturers to use lasers in their TVs for an amazing picture quality. They claimed it would happen by Christmas 2007, and would be supported by a range of manufacturers. Sadly though, it didn’t and it wasn’t. More »
TVs Should Be Better With Lasers
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Back in October 2006, right before they listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, a company called Arasor held a press conference in Sydney announcing that the future of television had arrived, and that future was lasers. Arasor claimed that an optical chip they made could enable TV manufacturers to use lasers in their TVs for an amazing picture quality. They claimed it would happen by Christmas 2007, and would be supported by a range of manufacturers. Sadly though, it didn’t and it wasn’t. More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | For such a life-changing technology, it’s sad that the quality of television pictures up until recently was pretty crap. Sure, 576i is good enough to see a picture clearly, but as screen sizes started getting larger with the introduction of rear projection, plasma and LCD screens, the lack of detail was really starting to get disconcerting. Fortunately, we now have high definition. More »
The Arrival Of High Definition
12:00PM Nick Broughall | For such a life-changing technology, it’s sad that the quality of television pictures up until recently was pretty crap. Sure, 576i is good enough to see a picture clearly, but as screen sizes started getting larger with the introduction of rear projection, plasma and LCD screens, the lack of detail was really starting to get disconcerting. Fortunately, we now have high definition. More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Last year, LCD TVs made up about 50 per cent of global TV sales. That’s a huge number. Not bad for a technology that’s only 40 years old or so… More »
The Evolution Of LCD
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Last year, LCD TVs made up about 50 per cent of global TV sales. That’s a huge number. Not bad for a technology that’s only 40 years old or so… More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Originally, plasma display technology was developed back in the 1960s as a screen for the PLATO teaching computer system. It was a simple, monologue display of the brightest orange that measured in at about an inch thick. Back then, nobody had any idea that plasma would some day lead a revolution into the lounge room… More »
Plasma TV And The Start Of Something Big
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Originally, plasma display technology was developed back in the 1960s as a screen for the PLATO teaching computer system. It was a simple, monologue display of the brightest orange that measured in at about an inch thick. Back then, nobody had any idea that plasma would some day lead a revolution into the lounge room… More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | If you owned a TV with a screen bigger than 40 inches before the year 2000, chances are it was a rear projection model. And chances are it took up most of your loungeroom. More »
When Rear Projection Made It BIG
12:00PM Nick Broughall | If you owned a TV with a screen bigger than 40 inches before the year 2000, chances are it was a rear projection model. And chances are it took up most of your loungeroom. More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | In 1978, Sir Clive Sinclair – inventor of the pocket calculator and the ZX Spectrum computer – released the world’s first portable television, the MTV-1. It was a bit chunky to be called pocketable, although that could have something to do with the fact that it packed a 2-inch CRT inside its body… More »
The MTV-1 Took The Television Portable
12:00PM Nick Broughall | In 1978, Sir Clive Sinclair – inventor of the pocket calculator and the ZX Spectrum computer – released the world’s first portable television, the MTV-1. It was a bit chunky to be called pocketable, although that could have something to do with the fact that it packed a 2-inch CRT inside its body… More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | While it’s quite fun to look back at the history of television this month, it also helps to point out just how good we’ve got it today. Could you imagine flicking through all of Foxtel’s hundred-odd channels manually by getting up to the TV? That’s what it was like (except without the “hundred-odd”) before the remote control was invented in 1950. More »
How Did We Ever Cope Before The Remote Control?
12:00PM Nick Broughall | While it’s quite fun to look back at the history of television this month, it also helps to point out just how good we’ve got it today. Could you imagine flicking through all of Foxtel’s hundred-odd channels manually by getting up to the TV? That’s what it was like (except without the “hundred-odd”) before the remote control was invented in 1950. More » 
