10-10-2016, 10:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2016, 10:39 PM by Mike Watterson.)
Really I think Baird is credited with boosting the idea of TV, and actually the only really good thing he did was the near real time film to to scanner camera system, later used on satellites to solve the problem of getting back high resolution images from space.
Long before Baird's colour Experiments the RGB had been done and transmitted in early 1930s (mechanical) and his mechanical system was 30 years behind the ideas of TV (fully Electronic TV proposed in 1905, only lacked a mechanism to store the image as charge), and Baird's system was basically Victorian. I've never understood why he is lauded more than the successful more clued up pioneers who actually were properly educated and understood what they were doing.
Two colour systems had already been shown to be a failure in printing and photography in the Victorian era. What held colour photography back was getting decent red sensitivity in the film.
Farnsworth is the USA equivalent. His camera system was inherently a failure compared with the stored charge concept and was never going to be more than a lab curiosity.
Long before Baird's colour Experiments the RGB had been done and transmitted in early 1930s (mechanical) and his mechanical system was 30 years behind the ideas of TV (fully Electronic TV proposed in 1905, only lacked a mechanism to store the image as charge), and Baird's system was basically Victorian. I've never understood why he is lauded more than the successful more clued up pioneers who actually were properly educated and understood what they were doing.
Two colour systems had already been shown to be a failure in printing and photography in the Victorian era. What held colour photography back was getting decent red sensitivity in the film.
Farnsworth is the USA equivalent. His camera system was inherently a failure compared with the stored charge concept and was never going to be more than a lab curiosity.
