History of TV
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Roundup: The History Of TV
Over the past month, we’ve been looking back at the History of TV. In case you missed any of it, here’s a roundup of how we moved from John Logie Baird’s mechanical creation to the latest flat-panel display.
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OLED: The Best TVs We’ve Ever Seen
I’ll put it out there: OLED is the biggest revolution in TVs since John Logie Baird went and showed off his 30 vertical line TV broadcast back in 1925. Well, maybe not quite – but if you’ve ever seen the picture on an OLED screen, you’ll agree that it blows away all the other technologies…
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100Hz: Saving LCDs From Motion Judder Since 2006
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…
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The Arrival Of High Definition
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…