History of TV
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The Evolution Of LCD
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…
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The MTV-1 Took The Television Portable
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…
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When TV Launched In Australia…
If you get frustrated at the length of time for new gadgets to be released in Australia today, spare a thought for your grandparents… Despite regular broadcasting in the late 30s overseas, television didn’t come to Australia until 1956, over 16 years later.
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TV Retrospective: Looking Back At The History Of The Telly
Has there ever been a technology as pervasive as the television? Ever since John Logie Baird demonstrated his mechanical device that showed moving images at 12.5 frames per second in 1926, the world has had an ongoing love affair with TV. And all this month, we’re going to be looking back at how the technology…