tv Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/tag/tv/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:09:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png tv Archives - Paleotronic Magazine http://paleotronic.com/tag/tv/ 32 32 146320098 The Crystal Ball: CRT ‘Innovation’ Flops http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/#respond Sat, 22 Sep 2018 14:00:36 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1512 Telephone Television The “Space Phone” built into some Zenith System 3 TVs from the 1970s to the 1990s unfortunately didn’t let you call space, but it did let grandma call her grandkids without having to [more...]

The post The Crystal Ball: CRT ‘Innovation’ Flops appeared first on Paleotronic Magazine.

]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/23/the-crystal-ball-crt-innovation-flops/feed/ 0 1512 The Entertainment Centre: CRT Television Through the Years http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:00:38 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1498 One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [more...]

The post The Entertainment Centre: CRT Television Through the Years appeared first on Paleotronic Magazine.

]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/21/the-entertainment-centre-crt-television-through-the-years/feed/ 0 1498 Gadget Graveyard: Baird’s Mechanical Television http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/15/gadget-graveyard-bairds-mechanical-television/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/15/gadget-graveyard-bairds-mechanical-television/#respond Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:00:58 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1473 Going a different way: long before Philo T. Farnsworth and David Sarnoff duked it out in the United States, a Scotsman had already been driving his idea of the future of  television far away in [more...]

The post Gadget Graveyard: Baird’s Mechanical Television appeared first on Paleotronic Magazine.

]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/15/gadget-graveyard-bairds-mechanical-television/feed/ 0 1473 Sarnoff vs Farnsworth: The Battle for the Tube. http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/13/sarnoff-vs-farnsworth-the-battle-for-the-tube/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/13/sarnoff-vs-farnsworth-the-battle-for-the-tube/#respond Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:00:42 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1465 GLANCING AT HIS MORNING PAPER, DAVID SARNOFF QUICKLY REALISED HE HAD A BIG, BIG PROBLEM. Sarnoff, the president of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) had spent his entire adult life rising up through the [more...]

The post Sarnoff vs Farnsworth: The Battle for the Tube. appeared first on Paleotronic Magazine.

]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/13/sarnoff-vs-farnsworth-the-battle-for-the-tube/feed/ 0 1465 Paleotronic Issue 2 Web-Release: Celebrating the CRT http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/11/paleotronic-issue-2-web-release-celebrating-the-crt/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/11/paleotronic-issue-2-web-release-celebrating-the-crt/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:32:03 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=1455 I GREW UP WITH THE TUBE FOR A NANNY. My day would start with Sesame Street, The Great Space Coaster, Reading Rainbow, Mister Rogers… and then later in the afternoon, trashy cartoons such as The [more...]

The post Paleotronic Issue 2 Web-Release: Celebrating the CRT appeared first on Paleotronic Magazine.

]]> http://paleotronic.com/2018/09/11/paleotronic-issue-2-web-release-celebrating-the-crt/feed/ 0 1455