Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "TV: A Forgotten History" video.

  1. Yes, a number of people can claim to have invented TV. But the first to broadcast moving pictures without wires, was John Baird. The first person on TV was a youth who he grabbed in from the street, giving him money to sit in front of the camera.
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  2. Most these days can only remember TVs being flat screen, never mind black & white.
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  3. Baird's assistant aged 104. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FGM1UxY-4
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  4. Sending digital TV pictures via telephones wires (with the spines being optic fibre), eliminating satellite dishes, direct dedicated TV cable into a home and TV antennas, is gaining ground, so much it will probably take over, yet not much mentioned about that.
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  5. No mention of the BBC? Oh no!
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  6.  @almostfm  An experimental television broadcast service was started in the London area by the BBC in 1930, using an electromechanical 30 line system developed by Baird. People were invited to take part buying TV sets. Thousands did, paying a lot of money for the sets, not knowing if the system would be adopted - it wasn't. It was the first TV station. Regular broadcasts started in 1934. They alternated between the Baird mechanical 240 line system and the all electronic 405 line Marconi-EMI system. The Marconi-EMI system won out the next year. The broadcast transmitters were turned off, as a programme was being broadcast, when war was declared in 1939, for fear of German planes following the beams. The service was resumed in 1945.
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