Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Episode Guide

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TelevisionTelevision - Wikipedia

    Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers.

  3. The technology of television has evolved since its early days using a mechanical system invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884. Every television system works on the scanning principle first implemented in the rotating disk scanner of Nipkow. This turns a two-dimensional image into a time series of signals that represent the brightness and ...

  4. This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service.

  5. Mar 11, 2024 · television (TV), a form of mass media based on the electronic delivery of moving images and sound from a source to a receiver. By extending the senses of vision and hearing beyond the limits of physical distance, television has had a considerable influence on society. Conceived in the early 20th century as a possible medium for education and ...

  1. People also search for