How long was television black and white for?

Answer 1

Originally, all television was black and white, but color began to be introduced in the early 1960's to larger markets. Because transmitting color television signals requires different equipment than does black and white, some small towns did not get color television until well into the 1970's. Because television was not widely available until the early 1950's, there was only a short period of time when it was the standard format.

Answer 2

The first public broadcasts of television began in January 1929 when the BBC transmitted programs from their London studio. The broadcasts used Baird's Televisor system, an electro-mechanical system but television nonetheless.

In 1936, the BBC changed to a fully electronic system and dropped support for the Televisor.

Back in 1927, Philo Farnsworth demonstrated his own electro-mechanical system in the US. Two years on he showed off a fully electronic system, the first to have no moving parts. Although it was the basis for the public broadcasts that followed, it took 10 years before RCA began a commercial service. There were numerous legal challenges regarding patents and ownership of the technologies during the ten years that prevented RCA introducing it earlier.

Answer 3

Black and white television was 30 years old before color televisions hit the stores. John Logie Baird first unveiled his television system in 1925. Color television was made commercially available in the mid 1950s in America and in 1967 in England.

As soon as black and white television was shown to the world, the next ambition was to produce color images. It was Baird once again who was at the forefront of development. In 1939, he presented proposals in London, England for color television signals. He also put forward an ambition to see television being broadcast with 1000 line resolution. Although the high resolution took a long time to appear, his general principles for color encoding were used in both the US color system and the UK system. Both systems are still in use today and will remain in use for as long we still have standard definition material and broadcasts.

Answer 4

I am trying to find out myself. I didn't see it until 1954 although I think it was around a little longer than that

Answer 5

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