Happy 100th Birthday Broadcast Television

[Steve]

First publicly demonstrated Jan 26 1925

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct747c 



What would John Logie Baird make of how it's turned out?

[Barman]

First publicly demonstrated Jan 26 1925

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct747c 



What would John Logie Baird make of how it's turned out?

I think he'd realise that he backed the wrong horse with his 'mechanical TV' idea... 

[Steve]

Was the only tech that worked at the time.  Baird was a clever guy with several inventions.  He lived locally and sadly died relatively young.

[Barman]

Was the only tech that worked at the time.  Baird was a clever guy with several inventions.  He lived locally and sadly died relatively young.

It was the first for sure...

From memory, he persisted with 'mechanical TV' after 'no moving parts electronic TV' was introduced. There were two rival systems but (needless to say) 'no moving parts electronic TV' won the day...

Not sure if I read a book about it specifically or if it was mentioned in the biography of the amazing Alan Blumlein.

[apc2010]

I like radio …

[Steve]

Was the only tech that worked at the time.  Baird was a clever guy with several inventions.  He lived locally and sadly died relatively young.

It was the first for sure...

From memory, he persisted with 'mechanical TV' after 'no moving parts electronic TV' was introduced. There were two rival systems but (needless to say) 'no moving parts electronic TV' won the day...

Not sure if I read a book about it specifically or if it was mentioned in the biography of the amazing Alan Blumlein.

To my shame I'd not knowingly heard of Blumlein before, what a loss too early of another pioneer.  Never occurred to me before that someone actually invented the long tail pair or stereo sound but he did.

[Barman]

Was the only tech that worked at the time.  Baird was a clever guy with several inventions.  He lived locally and sadly died relatively young.

It was the first for sure...

From memory, he persisted with 'mechanical TV' after 'no moving parts electronic TV' was introduced. There were two rival systems but (needless to say) 'no moving parts electronic TV' won the day...

Not sure if I read a book about it specifically or if it was mentioned in the biography of the amazing Alan Blumlein.

To my shame I'd not knowingly heard of Blumlein before, what a loss too early of another pioneer.  Never occurred to me before that someone actually invented the long tail pair or stereo sound but he did.

Amazing bloke - well worth reading the Biography (and also the background as to why it wasn't written for so long)...

I was saddened the last time I visited The Science Museum; there is no mention of him in the 'Wartime Radar' (or whatever) section and nothing about him in the development of H2S or the Magnetron...

[Grumpmeister]

I like radio …

Unfortunately video killed the radio star 


An for a bit of unrelated trivia that was the final track played on the MTV music channel before it shut down.

[Steve]

I like radio …

Unfortunately video killed the radio star 


An for a bit of unrelated trivia that was the final track played on the MTV music channel before it shut down.

And the first ever played on MTV in 1981

But Radio survived through it all and is still in rude health