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  2. Analog television - Wikipedia

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    The reproduced images from these mechanical systems were dim, very low resolution and flickered severely. Analog television did not begin in earnest as an industry until the development of the cathode-ray tube (CRT), which uses a focused electron beam to trace lines across a phosphor coated surface. The electron beam could be swept across the ...

  3. Digital television transition - Wikipedia

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    Analog satellite receivers were still used by 6% of households in 2010 as the highest in Europe. The analog satellite transmissions (broadcasting on Astra 19.2°E) were switched off on 30 April 2012, being the last in Europe. However, analog cable is still used by about 30% of the population and 55% of all cable broadcasts.

  4. Broadcast television systems - Wikipedia

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    Analog television system by nation Analog color television encoding standards by nation. Every analog television system bar one began as a black-and-white system. Each country, faced with local political, technical, and economic issues, adopted a color television standard which was grafted onto an existing monochrome system such as CCIR System M, using gaps in the video spectrum (explained ...

  5. Digital television transition in the United States - Wikipedia

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    12 June 2009 - final hours of analog broadcast on WWL-TV gave information about websites and telephone numbers for more information about transition. The digital television transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming.

  6. History of television - Wikipedia

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    Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.

  7. Top 25 things vanishing from America: #2 -- Analog TV - AOL

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    This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory -- some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. I ...

  8. Closed-circuit television camera - Wikipedia

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    In one second, the camera scene can change dramatically. A person for example can have walked a distance of 1 meter, and therefore if the distance is divided into four parts, i.e. four frames or "snapshots" in time, then each frame invariably looks like a blur, unless the subject keeps relatively still.

  9. Centripetal force - Wikipedia

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    The rope example is an example involving a 'pull' force. The centripetal force can also be supplied as a 'push' force, such as in the case where the normal reaction of a wall supplies the centripetal force for a wall of death or a Rotor rider. Newton's idea of a centripetal force corresponds to what is nowadays referred to as a central force.