The 12 Biggest Breakthroughs in Video Technology

The 12 Biggest Breakthroughs in Video Technology — page 1
Television Puts Sounds and Pictures Together In 1928 the technology to broadcast video and audio together was invented It was called television In the early twentieth century people were entertained by movies and radio Movies allowed them to see their favorite entertainers on the screen in a theater Radio let them listen to their favorite entertainers at home But they couldn't hear and see shows at home What they wanted was radio with pictures What they wanted was video Video was different from movies It was broadcast through the air like radio In 1941 the first commercial black and white television shows were broadcast There were only about 7 000 TV sets in the US Then the United States got involved in World War II TV was all but forgotten No more TV sets Introduced in 1946 the RCA 630 TS was the first mass produced television set