Movies, Video, and Television
The technology is ever-changing and the progress of new technology is so fast that most of us cannot afford to keep up with the technology. What was once considered to be top of the line technology is not anymore. As some of the examples regarding TV that are described below.
“The actual discovery of television took place when George Carey of Boston first suggested sending every component of a picture over multiple circuits in 1875. While others like, W.E. Sawyer proposed transmission of images over a single wire or channel by rapidly scanning picture elements in succession. Several visionary inventors were the first to conceive the thought of television, but it wasn’t until 1927 that Television as we know it today was produced”(1).
The increasing attraction for TV in late 18th and beginning of early 19th century was painted with TV expansion. It started first black and white and slowly moved to color TV all the way to improving the quality of television.
The first steps were through rapid movement of the picture without any tone or commonly known as black and white picture. “Not long after, the Lumiere brothers created a device they called the Cinematograph, which effectively functioned as camera, a projector and printer all in one” (1). With new technology and discoveries the picture was involving slowly adding more tone, color and later special effects to motion picture.
“At the beginning the TV screen was only one square inch” (2). (An incredible change from 72” screens and high definition television sets we see today) “By 1932, the inventor’s iconoscope was able to imitate the ways that human eyes view images for television broadcast. Later, after joining the Radio Corporation of America, Zworykin also developed designs for color television, but in his later years, television’s trivialization of everyday life disturbed the inventor, who favored using television as a cultural enrichment and learning” (2). Total number of TV sets has been rapidly increasing since the beginning of the TV time, especially in some highly developed countries such as USA for exam ample. Television together including music and movies has been getting a totally new meaning in terms of entertainment. Even though we still tend to use television for some sorts of entertainment, television is mostly educational for of entertainment. Starting form small YouTube videos through history and science channels all the way to breaking news; Television has gain an enormous influence over majority of people, hence that is why many people are using exactly the same television sources to manipulate the people. Television is in my opinion single most powerful force along with internet nowadays. “We all know how important television is in our lives, so we all need to thank Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth for starting the invention of television. Zworykin decided to work for David Sarnoff and RCA, while Farnsworth ended up with Philco. It was the beginning of a new era. The Growth of Television begins” (3). Cable TV is one of the most important part of TV for most of the people in USA. The variety TV is enormous and addictive that some people simply cannot leave without TV in their house.
Today’s television is progressing faster than ever before, we have better quality, hi resolution, blue ray DVD’s, 3D movies all in purpose of making the TV the most real thing. Another personally favorite aspect of television is plasma monitor. It can be placed as your desk-top screen or your TV screen. Plasma has almost all same characteristics as HDTV except it has some extra advantages over HDTV. Color of the picture that we can see is (hand down) absolutely the best color ever. “A high-end plasma monitor has the capability to display 16.77 million different shades of color, which translates into superior color” (4). I have feeling that by the time I finish working on this paper something new will come up in line of LED, LCD or OLED screen.
The main point or this research is not to find out which technology is better and more usable the TV produced in 18th century of Plasma TV produced nowadays. Technology is here to improve our lives and make information, entertainment more available to general public. Technology has been changing and it is changing and that is called technology.
(1) http://www.holonet.khm.de/visual_alchemy/lumiere.html
(2) http://home.bsu.edu/~cacarnahan/timeline.html
(3) http://home.bsu.edu/~cacarnahan/timeline.html
(4) http://homepages.wmich.edu/~r7clark/plasma.htm
