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  2. Golden Age of Television (2000s–present) - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Golden Age of Television (also known as Peak TV or Prestige TV) [1][2][3] is a period widely regarded for its high number of "high quality", internationally acclaimed television programs. [4][5][6][7] Named in reference to the original Golden Age of Television of the 1950s, [8] the period has also been referred to as ...

  3. Technology of television - Wikipedia

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    The elements of a simple broadcast television system are: . An image source. This is the electrical signal that represents a visual image, and may be derived from a professional video camera in the case of live television, a video tape recorder for playback of recorded images, or telecine with a flying spot scanner for the transfer of motion pictures to video).

  4. History of television - Wikipedia

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    History of television. Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a ...

  5. Golden Age of Television - Wikipedia

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    The first Golden Age of Television[1] is an era of television in the United States marked by its large number of live productions. The period is generally recognized as beginning in 1947 with the first episode of the drama anthology Kraft Television Theater [2] and ending in 1960 with the final episode of Playhouse 90 [3] (although a few Golden ...

  6. Television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, television is available via broadcast (also known as "over-the-air" or OTA) – the earliest method of receiving television programming, which merely requires an antenna and an equipped internal or external tuner capable of picking up channels that transmit on the two principal broadcast bands, very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF), to receive the ...

  7. Television - Wikipedia

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    It is an innovative service that represents the most significant evolution in television broadcast technology since color television emerged in the 1950s. [142] Digital television's roots have been tied very closely to the availability of inexpensive, high performance computers. It was not until the 1990s that digital television became possible ...

  8. Television set - Wikipedia

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    The ubiquitous television set became the display device for the first recorded media for consumer use in the 1970s, such as Betamax, VHS; these were later succeeded by DVD. It has been used as a display device since the first generation of home computers (e.g. Timex Sinclair 1000) and dedicated video game consoles (e

  9. History of display technology - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest electronic displays is the cathode-ray tube (CRT), which was first demonstrated in 1897 and made commercial in 1922. [1] The CRT consists of an electron gun that forms images by firing electrons onto a phosphor -coated screen. The earliest CRTs were monochrome and were used primarily in oscilloscopes and black and white ...