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Television terminology
- Television advertisementOn the 1st of July 1941, at 2:30 p.m., a test pattern appeared on New York station WNBT before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia…
- Blu-raySony unveiled the first Blu-ray Disc prototypes in October 2000. These early devices relied on blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers to achieve…
- Satellite televisionA satellite dish points at a fixed spot in the sky above the equator. This is because the satellite orbits Earth at the same speed that our planet rotates.
- Streaming mediaThe word streaming first appeared in the 1970s to describe tape drives made by Data Electronics Inc. These machines needed to ramp up slowly and run…
- Television broadcasterIn 1927, Philo Taylor Farnsworth demonstrated electronic television in San Francisco. This event marked the beginning of a technological revolution that…
- NewsThe English word news developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of new. In Middle English, the equivalent word was similar to the…
- Nielsen Media ResearchArthur C. Nielsen founded his market research firm in 1923, establishing a foundation for what would become the dominant force in American audience…
- Story arcThe phrase story arc first appeared in print during 1973 inside a Time Magazine review of the film The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
- Anthology seriesThe word anthology traces back to Ancient Greek, where it meant flower-gathering. Meleager of Gadara coined the term around 60 BCE as garland to describe a…
- NTSCThe United States Federal Communications Commission convened the National Television System Committee in 1940 to resolve conflicts between competing…
- RerunLucille Ball and Desi Arnaz invented the rerun during the production of I Love Lucy between 1951 and 1957. They rebroadcasted episodes while Ball was…
- Live actionClint Eastwood and Marianne Koch stand in a real-world location for the film A Fistful of Dollars. This image captures the core definition of live action as…
- TelevisionThe word television first appeared in print on the 24th of August 1900. A Russian scientist named Constantin Perskyi used it during a paper presentation at…
- SimulcastA press agent at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia coined the word simulcast in 1948. This portmanteau of simultaneous and broadcast described a new practice where…
- Digital video recorderIn 1985, Hitachi demonstrated a prototype digital video tape recorder that used digital recording video tape as storage media to record digital HD video…
- Saturday-morning cartoonIn the 1950s, animation production shifted from theatrical shorts to television blocks following the Paramount Decree. Jason Mittel argues that by the end of…
- Direct-to-videoThe first direct-to-video release to go into production was E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind in 1984 produced by CineTel Films and Robert Hegyes.