For the average person, even a regular television set is something of a technological marvel that becomes almost unbelievable when considering todays latest and greatest advances, including the plasma TV. Take a brief look at the history of the technology that we now take for granted.
As early as the 1950s, people were beginning to have television sets in their homes, though the practice of a home television set wouldnt become widespread until the 1960s. Suddenly, the average person could be a bystander for historic events, catch the latest news and spend hours being entertained.
In those early days of television, an analog signal transmitted the audio and video that would become a picture on the home television set. The early home sets used a tube technology it took ages to warm up sufficiently to produce a picture. The analog signal was prone to fuzzy pictures that could fade out completely with various conditions. A home typically had an antenna, either on top of the television set itself or standing outside the house. Adjusting that antenna could help the reception of the picture.
Many things have changed since those early days of television. Analog...