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Zenith was the first company to experiment with subscription television, launching their Phonevision system with experimental Chicago station KS2XBS (originally broadcasting on Channel 2 before the Federal Communications Commission forced them to relinquish it to WBBM-TV). Their experiment involved a descrambler box mounted on the television ...
Post 1987 TVs were made by Mitsubishi and sold as Electrohome in name only Element Electronics: 2006 present Emerson Radio & Phonograph: 1947 1973 EMI - - Farnsworth: 1947 1965 Ferguson Electronics - - Ferranti - - Finlux (Vestel) 1971 present Fisher Electronics - - Fujitsu: 1992 present Funai: 1980s present Geloso: 1931 1972 General Electric ...
Zenith's allocation was later moved to channel 2. [4] In 1947, Zenith announced a perfected pay television system and selected the name "Phonevision" as the trademark for the concept. [2] In 1950, in preparation for the public pay television test, the experimental station moved from the Zenith factory to the Field Building and became KS2XBS. [3 ...
Electra was a teletext service in the United States that was in operation from 1982 up until 1993, [1] when it was shut down due to a lack of funding, and discontinuation of teletext-capable television sets by the only US television manufacturer offering teletext capability at the time, Zenith. [1]
This set feature provided Philco with an answer to Zenith's wireless remote control, “Space Command”, which had been introduced the same year. The Predicta was announced to the industry in 1958, and launched to the public the following year at the 1959 Miss America pageant, which was sponsored by Philco.
Curtis Mathes TVs that were used for rentals (such as ColorTyme) were sometimes rebranded "Rutherford". Curtis Mathes, Sr., died in 1977. Curtis Mathes, Jr., became the chairman of the board and the company's public face, appearing in its television commercials until his 1983 death in the Air Canada Flight 797 fire at Cincinnati/Northern ...
A digital TV converter box. A digital television adapter (DTA), commonly known as a converter box, DTV converter , or decoder box, is a television tuner that receives a digital television (DTV) transmission, and converts the digital signal into an analog signal that can be received and displayed on an analog television set.
A Zenith 1200 CRT Projector based home theater. Visible extending from the ceiling are three lenses, one each for red, green and blue Black and white CRT projector. A CRT projector is a video projector that uses a small, high-brightness cathode-ray tube (CRT) as the image generating element. The image is then focused and enlarged onto a screen ...