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    Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk...
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    reproducer) marked the start of the end for mechanical systems as the dominant form of television. Mechanical television, despite its inferior image quality and...
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    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...
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  • Video (category Digital television)
    and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) systems...
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    of color television standards was an important part of the history and technology of television. Transmission of color images using mechanical scanners...
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  • interference actions. 1924: John Logie Baird demonstrates a semi-mechanical television system with the transmission of moving silhouette images in England;...
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    Ulises Armand Sanabria (category Television pioneers)
    of mechanical televisions and early terrestrial television broadcasts. Sanabria was the builder and engineer of WCFL, the first mechanical television station...
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    and broadcast pre World War II television systems were tested. The first ones were mechanical based (mechanical television) and of very low resolution,...
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  • video games (e.g. Minecraft), and other unusual media (such as a mechanical television) as a graphical test. As of October 2023, it has achieved more than...
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  • Low-definition television (LDTV) refers to TV systems that have a lower screen resolution than standard-definition television systems. The term is usually...
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  • experimental station W2XAB (now WCBS-TV), it was broadcast on a mechanical television system. The series was first announced in the September 17, 1932...
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    Nipkow disk (category Television technology)
    fundamental component in mechanical television, and thus the first televisions, through the 1920s and 1930s. The device is a mechanically spinning disk of any...
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    "Early Chicago Television, Mechanical Tv, Ua Sanabria". Hawestv.com. Retrieved 2010-03-02. Herbert, Stephen (2004). A History of Early Television. ISBN 9780415326674...
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  • television studio at the Daily News building in 1929". Television Experimenters. 28 October 1984. Retrieved 11 May 2010. "Early Mechanical Television...
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    Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either...
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  • The Mechanical Universe...And Beyond is a 52-part telecourse, filmed at the California Institute of Technology, that introduces university level physics...
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    Stooky Bill (category History of television in the United Kingdom)
    Baird invented some of the first experimental television systems. In 1924 he developed a mechanical television system to transmit moving images by means of...
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  • Animal Mechanicals (French: Les Super Mécanimaux) is a Canadian CGI-animated preschool television series created by Jeff Rosen. Produced by Halifax Film...
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    receive television until the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although 180-line cathode ray tube receivers were manufactured in France in 1936, a mechanical scanning...
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    February 1924, he demonstrated to the Radio Times that a semi-mechanical analogue television system was possible by transmitting moving silhouette images...
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  • 480p (category Television terminology)
    stands for progressive, so the two must not be confused. The ATSC digital television standards define 480p with 640×480p (4:3) pixel resolutions, at 24, 30...
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  • experimental television stations Narrow-bandwidth television Television systems before 1940 WRGB WNBC WCBS-TV KCBS-TV BBC / BBC Television Television systems...
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    output and defines a 2K format with a resolution of 2048 × 1080. For television and consumer media, the dominant resolution in the same class is 1920 × 1080...
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    device relied upon the Nipkow disk and thus became known as the mechanical television. It formed the basis of experimental broadcasts done by the British...
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  • This is a list of television-related events that occurred prior to 1925. Table of years in television Sutton, Henry (7 November 1890). "Tele-photography"...
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    720p (category Television terminology)
    highest standard framerates. Television portal 4K, Ultra-high-definition television, 1080i, 1080p. High-definition television (HDTV) Image resolution List...
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  • High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation...
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    l'ORTF in 1964 and finally, Télévision Française 1 (TF1) in 1975. The first public demonstration of a 30-line mechanical television took place on 14 April...
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    lose a tooth. A mechanical bull riding competition serves as a plot point in the television show Patriot Although injuries from mechanical bulls are relatively...
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    approximately 4,000 pixels. Digital television and digital cinematography commonly use several different 4K resolutions. In television and consumer media, 3840 × 2160...
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