Comments on: Where TELEVISION Stands Today (Apr, 1932)

By: John

John — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:14:37 +0000

Irene Gabriel: I think I can help you. You've obviously lost the remote so look for it in the couch and change the channel from TvLand Sanford and Son?

By: John

John — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:04:19 +0000

Irene Gabriel: History is shooting guns and murder. Look at the bright side, most of the folks using guns on TV are doing it wrong, so there you go.
I think your post explains why television programmers believe the audience is mentally challenged.

Sanford & Son?

By: Irene Gabriel

Irene Gabriel — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:40:29 +0000

Yes, where is television going??? The lineup of programs seems to be aimed at mentally challanged audiences! There are interminable repeats that go on and on adnauseum! Is there no relief from no-brainers like “Sanford & Son.” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “The Nanny,” “Everyone Hates Chris,” PLEASE…..WHAT HAPPENED TO ENTERTAINMENT? why not have something educatonal as well as entertaining on for teenages on Saturdays…..dlassics that might teach them something of history instead of how to shoot a gun and murder!!
Your sense of civic duty to the next generation is sadly lacking!

By: jayessell

jayessell — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:55:10 +0000

Charley, as mentioned in comment #5,
hereâ€™s my â€œWhere Does TELEVISION Stand Today?â€

http://farm4.static.flickr.com.....58ff_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com.....6205_b.jpg

By: jayessell

jayessell — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:52:06 +0000

Charley, as mentioned in comment #5, here's my "Where Does TELEVISION Stand Today?"

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:58:06 +0000

A followup on the film I mentioned in comment #1.
Here’s the entire video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VOe80cgbQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIA7Z7zBuc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rpfek-F8Rw

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:54:30 +0000

I have a February 1938 Picture magazine.
It has a “Where Does TELEVISION Stand Today?”
It describes a fairly sophisticated 441 line 30 fps image on a 7 x 10 inch screen.
In 1938, that’s like 1080i!
I’ll try to flickr some of it.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:27:24 +0000

Thanks Katey, I actually have a bunch of those as well that I haven’t scanned. I recently got a large format scanner so I’ll probably be posting them in the future.

By: katey

katey — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:38:44 +0000

I have some ‘future of TV’ articles from 1940s and 50s Better Homes and Gardens, is there any interest in my scanning them for this site?

The reason why I haven’t started my own site of BHG scans (I have hundreds of ‘em) is the old fashioned ‘large format’ magazine style doesn’t fit on my scanner. But I could peice ‘em together if there is demand.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:03:16 +0000

I’m not sure about every year, but there certainly were a lot of them.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:16:52 +0000

Charlie, were there several articles each titled
“Where does Television stand today”?
One every year from 1929 to 1939?

You can search YouTube for examples of Mechanical Television.
Unfortunatly, the camcorders of today can’t record the image
that a human eye (and brain) would see.
The black bars are an artifact of the recorder.

On a different note, here’s a video from 1936…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rpfek-F8Rw

I wonder if the entire film is available somewhere.