Standards for More, Better, Faster Pixels [Report from the Standards Vice President]

Alan Lambshead

In 1926, Scottish inventor John Logic Baird demonstrated the first viable television system using mechanical picture scanning with electronic amplification at the transmitter and at the receiver. It could be sent by radio or over ordinary telephone lines, leading to historic trans-Atlantic transmissions of television from London to New York in February 1928. In 1929, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting using the 30-line Baird system. By November 1936, the BBC was conducting regular, ‘high-resolution’ electronic television broadcasts on the 405-line standard.

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2014-05
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/j18407