Tag: television

Spooky Jack-O-Lantern TV

Date: October 28, 2019 Category: Crafts, Holiday, Make Tags: , , , , , , Comments: 0

It's almost that time of year. The best time of year. Halloween! Even if you aren't a Brooklyn Nine-Nine fan, Halloween is still the best holiday. It allows for a lot more creativity when decorating than some other holidays (looking at you, Christmas... all those houses look the same!). Just like last week we're bringing you a relatively simple but really cool project, this time from Amanda Formaro and her blog, Crafts by Amanda. This week we're turning an old CRT TV set into an awesome-looking white noise Jack-O-Lantern. Crafts by Amanda It's a fairly simple process. You start by spray painting your TV (don't…

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November 8, 1972: HBO’s First Broadcast

Date: November 8, 2018 Category: Today Years Ago Tags: , , , Comments: 0

Today in 1972, the Home Box Office first began airing programming, beginning with Paul Newman's 1971 drama Sometimes a Great Notion. HBO debuted on a Service Electric cable TV system in Wilkes-Barre, PA. It premiered to little fanfare and even less interest. HBO maintained a small subscriber base for two years, almost constantly losing money. In late September 1975, HBO switched from a microwave-based delivery system to a satellite-based one. This marked a massive shift in HBO's availability and popularity, allowing the network to broadcast across the entire country. The first program broadcast in this new format was the record-breaking Thrilla in Manila boxing match,…

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October 2, 1925: First Test of Working Television System

Date: October 2, 2018 Category: Today Years Ago Tags: , , Comments: 0

Today in 1925, Scottish engineer John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture. The image, of a ventriloquist dummy head by the name of Stooky Bill, transmitted at 5 frames per second. Baird would continue to enhance his invention over the years. In 1941, he proposed and patented a full-color three-dimensional television, but it was ultimately never produced. It wasn't until over 60 years later that the first 3D TV would become commercially available.

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September 7, 1927: First Fully Electric Television Demonstrated

Date: September 7, 2018 Category: Today Years Ago Tags: , , , Comments: 0

Today in 1927, American inventor Philo Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the world's first electronic television image. A simple line was sent from his image dissector camera tube in one room of his San Francisco laboratory to a receiver in another room. His invention (which he co-credits his wife, Elma, with) would go on to lay the groundwork for television as we know it today.

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