...Name: Nicholas L Bomber Date: 11/10/14 IRN# 9008827577 Approved Essay Title: History of American Television or Motion Picture Subtopic 1): historical development of the medium Description of the concrete Experience: I have lived with the television and watched it since I was very young. I can attest to the fact that it is has been the greatest and most influential invention of the 20th century with the exception of the internet. My parents have been changing the television sets since they bought the first one in the 1970’s. Its development has really played a great role in most people lives. The quality of what is being aired on the television has really developed since the medium was introduced in the society. I always see the television as a good source of the most broadly-shared images and messages of the history. Advancement in technology has really transformed the ways of communication. Last month I asked my grandmother what it was like growing up without the television. She told me how they used to tell each other stories since it was the only way of keeping them busy on their free time. She also told me that they had messengers who used to deliver messages to the different communities. Introduction of the television has really changed this for the better. Viewing time and saturation has increased over the years. The television mass rituals have also become very strong and show no signs of weakening its hold. There have been introduction of new types of delivery...
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...World history Topic:- History of Electronic Media Submitted to:- Sir Altaf Submitted by:- Alina Zaidi I.D #:- 110177007 University of Management & Technology History of electronic media The television has become such an integral part of homes in the modern world that it is hard to imagine life without television. The boob tube, as television is also referred to, provides entertainment to people of all ages. Not just for entertainment value, but TV is also a valuable resource for advertising and different kinds of programming. The television as we see it and know it today was not always this way. Let’s take a brief look at the history of television and how it came into being. Timeline of TV History Different experiments by various people, in the field of electricity and radio, led to the development of basic technologies and ideas that laid the foundation for the invention of television. In the late 1800s, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a student in Germany, developed the first ever mechanical module of television. He succeeded in sending images through wires with the help of a rotating metal disk. This technology was called the ‘electric telescope’ that had 18 lines of resolution. Around 1907, two separate inventors, A.A. Campbell-Swinton from England and Russian scientist Boris Rosing, used the cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner system, to create a new television system. From the experiments of Nipkow and Rosing, two types of television systems...
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...Television and the Humanities Lisa Chandler HUMN303 DeVry College of New York Television and the Humanities Introduction Many inventions throughout history have made their mark on contemporary American society, but none so much so as television. According to Mitchell Stephens in his article entitled History of Television, “Before 1947, the number of U.S. homes with television sets could be measured in the thousands. By the late 1990’s, 98 percent of U.S. homes had at least one television set, and those sets were on for an average of more than seven hours a day.” As the quality of the image improved over the years, so have the number of televisions in American homes. According to an article in TIME magazine in 2009, “The first widespread broadcast in color went out in 1954, and today there are televisions in some 110 million U.S. households” (Fitzpatrick, 2009). This basically says that almost every home in America has at least one television set. Even people who are homeless or do not have a television at home can go many places to watch television. Even the local mall has at least one television set, if not more, playing in the electronics section. Television has become a true part of American society. This paper will highlight the history of the invention of television and the innovators who contributed to its mechanism. The television’s evolutionary process as well as its effect on society—especially the humanities—is also examined. The Invention The first successful...
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...Contents 1. Introduction 4 1.1 History 5 1.1.1 1935 - 1941 5 1.1.2 World War-II 6 1.1.3 1946 – 1949 6 1.1.4 1950- 1959 7 1.1.5 1960 – 2000 8 1.2 The History of Color Television 8 1.3 The Inventor of Television 10 1.4 The Definition of Television 12 1.5 Current Issues 13 Positive and Negative Effects of Television 13 1.5.1 Positive Effects of Television on Children 13 • Television as education 13 • Moderation 13 • Family bonding through television 13 • Educational programs 14 • Amusement 14 • Catalyst for reading 14 • Wonder 14 • Introduces new cultures 15 • Bridge to conversations 15 • Other positive effects 15 1.5.1 Negative Effects of Television on Children 16 • Violence 16 • Passivity 16 • Risky behaviors 16 • Obesity 16 1.5.2 Positive Effects of Television on Society 17 • Spreading Information 17 • Creating Memories 17 • Social Media 17 1.5.3 Negative Effects of Television on Society 18 • Desensitized to Violence 18 • Increased Aggression in Adults 18 1.5.4 Positive Effects of Television on Nation 19 1.5.5 Negative Effects of Television on Nation 20 1.6 How to Influence Positive Behavior of Watching Television in Children 21 1.7 Understanding Television Ratings and the V-Chip 23 1.8 The Effects on the Economy 25 a) Children Buy 25 b) Advertising Sales 25 c) Hollywood Profits 25 1.9 The Effects on the Culture 27 1.10 The Effect on the Politic 28 1.11 The Statistics. 29 1.12 Objective of Television 31 2. Findings from interview with...
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...Netflix and it’s Affect on Television In 2009, Netflix founder and CEO, Reed Hastings, boldly proclaimed, “There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions (Stone, 2009).” Revolutions are commonplace in television history, however. In the first half of the 20th century, technological innovations helped facilitate television’s emergence as a mass media. After becoming a mass media, consistent innovations like color television and the establishment of cable caused television to become even more popular. In 1997, an innovative company named “Netflix” emerged that was trying to find a way to instantly play video content on television without the use of DVDs. However, in the mid-2000s high speed internet facilitated video-streaming on computers and Netflix used the technology to stream its content onto televisions. Since Netflix began streaming its content, the company’s impact on television has been substantial and very evident. First, as Netflix’s popularity increased, an increasing number of hardware devices began offering the service. Second, consumers increasingly started viewing Netflix as an alternative to cable while insiders viewed it as a potentially serious threat. Lastly, Netflix has impacted the movie industry by adversely impacting box-office revenue, DVD sales, and DVD rentals. Thus far in the 21st century, Netflix has made the biggest impact on television as it has changed the way many consumers...
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...THE BI-POLAR BOX: TELEVISION’S INFLUENCE ON AMERICA Michael S. Barrett ENGL101- B18 May 29, 2012 Television is a powerful tool that can be used for good or for evil, and in and of itself cannot be good or bad any more than a hammer can be good or bad. In the early sixties, during television’s infancy, there only a handful of televisions manufacturers and the sets were costly to own. Most families had only set if they had any. Ever improving technology and access to programming has created a tremendous market for producers of televisions. Technological advances in electronic circuitry have allowed televisions to be manufactured less expensively opening a flood gate of companies that sell sets. Owners of “smartphones” can even view the same programming on their telephone that they see at home. This provides yet another avenue of influence for television programmers. Americans have an average of three televisions per household according to surveyor and television ratings company A. C. Nielsen in a study released in 2010. According to Nielsen, 54 percent of American homes have at least three televisions while only 18 percent of homes had one or less sets. This number is up 43 points from a similar survey conducted in 1975. Clearly, television has become one of the dominant forms of media in the United States and probably has some effect on viewers but whether the effect is negative or positive is yet to be determined. Also according to Nielsen more people will be cutting...
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...A History of the Origins of Television For the first half of the twentieth century, the dominant media in western society had been newspapers, radio and cinema. Then, in the early 1920s, a man named John Logie Baird created the first television, which has since become the dominant media of the second half of the twentieth century. Television has had an immense impact on human society in many forms including sociality, knowledge, experience and leisure. After the first experimental broadcasts in America in the 1920s, the British Broadcasting Corporation was set up in 1922, however television broadcasting did not begin until 1936 when an estimated 23,000 people saw the first broadcasts. In 1939 television had ceased and was described as something that would amount to nothing. During the war the radio was extremely popular and this was the case for several years after as television sets were expensive and had limited broadcasting hours with poor receptions. The BBC was dominated by their director general, John Reith, who had negotiated a position where the BBC was independent from both the government and free from the pressures of market forces. For the BBC had an assured income from all those who owned radio receivers. Reith had established a corporation with aims to inform, educate and entertain the public as a whole, making available cultural experiences that they would otherwise not have seen [HOLLAND, 1997: Page 8]. Up until the 1950s the BBC had a monopoly on...
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...take for granted, yet some of them have only been commonplace for the last 15 to 20 years. Most of them were not even dreamed of when my Mother was young. She remembers when they got their first television and I cannot imagine a world without television. I am sure when my daughter gets older; she will have only faint memories of blue-ray discs and i-phones, because something better will have come along by then. As the saying goes, “change is good”, as I always say, “change is inevitable, but not necessarily good”; however, the technological advances of the last 20 years have certainly made my life different from the last generation. What will the future bring next in the world of technology? In an article I read in Reader’s Digest recently, they asked people living in the United States what they would give up: television, cell phone, or the internet. The results showed that 49% would give up television, but if all the people polled had been over 45 years of age they would have chosen the cell phone. These are three pieces of technology that I use every day. I have had a cell phone for the last sixteen years and I do not know what I did before I had one. I could not imagine letting my daughter out of the house without hers. What did parents do before cell phones? As for the television technology, I like the convenience of not having to be home to watch my favorite program. I can record it on my digital video recorder and watch it when I have time, commercial free. Without the...
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...Abstract Success is the level that is reached from hard work and dedication. In order for a company to reach this level it takes a motivated person or persons with a vision and drive. That would lead the company in a positive direction towards its mission and goals. There have been two television brands that came to this realization. They are LG and Panasonic. The beginning of LG began in 1958 as Goldstar. The company has since evolved into a big name in the electronic industry. One of their first major televisions was the 60 inch plasma in 1998. Their goal is to add to consumers lives by improving it every day. As a part of the companies mission statement; the increase they improve lives by way of fun and functionality of their products. When having fun consumers enjoy the products. Enjoying products would certainly make life good. As for Panasonic their journey began by a Japanese man by the name of Konosuke Matsushita. Little did he know that he would change impact and change the lives of many people in the 21st century. The year 1918, launched its very first product. This particular product was the attachment plug. It was not until 1960 that the company came out with their first color television. Both companies have evolved into two major powerhouse names that we know and love today. Each has its own promotional and advertising strategies. It is through research that it will be discovered that which company is on top. As well as which company has given the most thought and...
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...The Invention of Television Student’s name: Ahmed masoud Al Reyami H00134790 Fahad Ahmed H00247616 Abdullah yaqoob Mrs.: Julie Richards The Invention of Television ------------------------------------------------- When you ask the question--who invented television, you may get a few different answers! Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone over the years, contributed to the evolution of television. * In Sorbonne, France1922, Edwin Belin, an Englishman, who held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar, demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early precursor to modern television. * John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and entrepreneur who achieved his first transmissions of simple face shapes in 1924 using mechanical television and he held his first public demonstration of 'television' at the London department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in London. * Zworykin is usually credited as being the father of modern television, he demonstrates electronic television in 1927. * Another inventor was William Horner he began invented Tv In 1834, allows moments of darkness and create illusion of movement. * But the first TV was invented in 1950 by Philo Farnsworth, at his age of 12,he build an electronic motor and produced the first electronic washing mechanism his family had over owned and in 1930, he won a patent for his all electronic...
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...-Introduction: The work of the first NTSC (National Television System Committee) was built on the basis of earlier standardization attempts. The first NTSC laid the foundations that made monochrome television a practical reality in the United States. The standards it endorsed in 1941 are still in use today. At the dawn of color television it seemed at first that it was not going to be compatible with monochrome television and would need special receivers. A tug of war of compatible versus incompatible color television systems ensued. The compatible system won. The second NTSC set up the compatible standards that have been adopted by the U.S. and by the rest of the world in many major respects. Casual observers of technical progress often assume that the basic forces at work are merely those of new science and improved technology. But seasoned veterans of the technical wars know that many other forces are also at work. Prominent among them are the pride and prejudice of technical, industrial, and political leaders; the pursuit of power and profit; the rivalry for command of patents and markets; as well as the forces of government: inertia, misunderstanding, and, occasionally, foresight. The development of television in the United States is a prime example of the conflicting interplay of these forces and their ultimate resolution for the public good. The body on which these forces were principally brought to bear was the National Television System Committee. The first NTSC reviewed...
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...The Global Business Game: A Strategic Management and International Business Simulation, 3e Player's Manual Joseph Wolfe, Ph.D. Experiential Adventures LLC To my wife, Nancy, who has made possible so many wonderful experiences Player's Manual for The Global Business Game, 3e Joseph Wolfe |COPYRIGHT © 2005 |ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. |For permission to use material from this | |Experiential Adventures LLC |No part of this work covered by the |text or product, contact us by | | |copyright hereon may be reproduced or used |TEL (918) 252 1715 | |For more information contact Experiential |in any form or by a means— graphic, |FAX (918) 254 4131 | |Adventures, 8125 S. 74th East Avenue, Tulsa|electronic, or mechanical, including | | |Oklahoma 74133 |photocopying, recording, taping, Web | | | |distribution or information storage and | | | |retrieval systems—without the publisher’s | | | |written...
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...What was the major development in evolution of mass media in the 20th century The mass media included television, radio, newspaper and telephone. Before television, there was morse code, but later the telephone came in to play, people decided that it was much easier than waiting for a telegram. Before the invention of television there was the radio, this was considered the main form of entertainment for a family, the radio contained talk shows and advertisements read over the radio from different stores. Newspapers have been around for ages, they were pretty much the communication for cities, towns and small communities. Everything changed when television made an appearance in 1935. The first television set was black and white, mostly they were owned by people who were considered rich, later it became affordable for more families to own. The three major programs offered were ABC, CBS and NBC, later on the color television set was developed. Later on the computer was developed, they seemed too large for households, so most computers were used by the government, after that Apple developed a computer smaller for household use, more and more companies have developed better technology with the computer, television and the internet. How did each development influence America How did these influence America, The newspaper gave the news, it had no other purpose, but as it developed it was used for other...
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...Television is a big part of day to day life. People often watch television anywhere from 2.5 to 5 hours a day. Televisions programing are used for communication, entertainment and education. It is impossible to credit any individuals with the credit of the actual invention of Television. There many discussions and ideas thrown around about television but when it came to building them, there were 2 types Mechanical and Electronic. Mechanical Television The first mechanical TV systems that produced real television images were developed by John Logie Baird in England and by Charles Francis Jenkins in the US. Picture quality was very poor and the screens were only about an inch wide and was made of 30 to 60 line compared to our tvs now that are about 525 lines. The TVs used a motor to rotate a metal disk to give us picture, with a neon tube behind the disk to give us light. In 1931 there were 25 stations in the US and serveral manufactures were selling the sets. The first person to watch television was Murray Mercier from Columbus Ohio. Because of the poor picture, mechanical television was a failure and by 1933 almost all US stations were off the air. Mechanical television stayed on air in England till 1935. Electronic Television Electronic television is based on the invention of cathode ray tube, which is the tube found in modern TVs. In 1927, Philo Farnsworth invented a special camera tube that was able to electronically transmit signals. Philo had created the first...
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...Convergence is the coming together of multiple forms of media. This includes newspapers, magazines, television, internet, film and music. In today’s society that involves technology. Technology in the modern age has connected all forms of media into a new machine. In a fast moving and ever changing industry multi-media devices must be created to give access to the masses. These devices have to be state of the art, reliable, flexible and affordable. Electronic company’s such as Samsung, Sony, LG and Phillips Magnavox have found a way converge multiple forms of media. The creation of the SMART TV has connected television with the internet, and in turn created the most accessible form of media convergence. This paper will walk through the history of television and how it’s advances has brought it the ultimate media convergence. The first successful use of a television was demonstrated in 1927. The unit was created by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Farnsworth created a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded into radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. The images produced were very primitive but television would grow in the years to come. After Farnsworth invention RCA invested $50 million in the development of television. This investment was used to update broadcasting systems for the new content and to create a television set that could be used in homes. In 1939 RCA televised its first baseball game and a speech by Franklin...
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