2. Evolution of Television - Past-Present-Future
“TeleVision”
Tele = From a Distance
Vision = The Way You Look
Abbreviation = “TV”
3. Evolution of Television - Past-Present-Future
• 1884
• German inventor
• Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow
• Lived and worked in Berlin
• Inventor of “Nipkow Disc”
6. Evolution of Television - Past-Present-Future
• October, 2nd 1951
• 1st National TV Broadcast
• Black & White
• NTS-studio “Irene” in Bussum
• Two Hour Program:
- Movie fabrication church clocks
- History of the television
- “Toverspiegel” ~ theatre play
7. Evolution of Television - Past-Present-Future
• 1967
• Introduction Colour TV
• 1977
• Last TV Studio switches to Colour Broadcasts
• Same technique as Black & White TV
but then with 3x colours:
Red, Green and Blue
• All possible colours can be mixed
White =
all three
colours
together
Black =
absence
of all
three lights
8. Evolution of Television - Past-Present-Future
TELETEKST
• Started by NOS in 1980
dutch national broadcast company
• Information pages in Dutch
• Pure Text - no pictures
• Free service - costs no money
• Available on every TV
• Information like:
- National News
- World News
- Sports News
- TV Guide
- Subtitles
9. Evolution of Television - Past-Present-Future
• Since 1980’s
• New Lightning Techniques “LCD/LED”
• Advantage - very thin screens
• Also known as “Flatscreens”
• LCD = Liquid Crystal Display
• Backlight with LCD Screen in front of it
• LED = Light Emitting Diode
• Same as LCD but with different backlight
• Advantages are:
- Lower power consumption
- Better black colour
10. Evolution of Television - Past-Present-Future
“RESOLUTION-RACE”
• Over the years TVs will become larger in size and
sharper (higher resolution)
• Resolution = number of pixels per inch
• Pixel = very small dot - nearly unvisible human eye
• The higher the resolution
» the more pixels per inch
» the better the image quality
• Evolution
- from Analogue TV
- to Digital TV
- to HDTV (HD = High Definition)
- to UltraHD (aka 4K = 4x sharper than HD)
- to 8K TV upcoming.. ?