TEL-T T 207 1st Edition Lecture 8Outline of Last Lecture I. Business ResearchOutline of Current Lecture II. The Beginning of TVCurrent Lecture- The Beginning of TVo Mechanical TV As early as 1926 Jenkins IPO gets $10 million in 1929 Went from 30-60 lines of resolution to about 400 in about a decade First tv had about 10 lines of resolution- Cost about one months’ salary- All media technologies compete with all other media typeso Radio was its main competitoro Newspapers Resolution is much better but it doesn’t give you the live pictureo Film Didn’t get really popular until 1915 but still a competitor Tv allowed in home entertainment - It was current and immediate Tv wasn’t that hard to make at home- Crappy tv but it was possible- Had the potential to have an amateur phase but doesn’to Support No one was really behind the tv- RCA, NBC, and others were against it because they didn’t want it to harm the market and industryo They also had the FCC in the palm of their hands and didn’t want that taken away from themThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Made a strong argument that tv could share inappropriate videos and harm America The public wasn’t for tv because radio promoted that it was underdeveloped While Sarnoff and RCA talked bad about tv, they were stealing Farnsworth’s ideas and creating a tv of their own RCA+NBC+CBS=public campaign against tv FCC treats it like a dangerous experimental technology- FCC wouldn’t allow the use of the electromagnetic frequency- They only granted 2 licenses per marketo RCA began to create the electronic tv Farnsworth created the “image dissector” outside of RCA RCA didn’t own the patent but still used it and waited until Farnsworth sued- Farnsworth won the suit in the 1940so Sarnoff showed off the tv at the World’s Fair and is seen as the “Father of TV” Farnsworth nearly loses it all but does get some royalties Sarnoff took the idea and the glory of tv People only saw it as an improvement on radio- That’s why FCC made standards and deemed only two licenses