Talk:John Logie Baird
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[edit] Baird's life
I'd like to see more biographical data - I've just read "Tube" by David Fisher ( see my user page or Philo Farnsworth )and it gives a lot of dates and events in Baird's life, including his early days selling soap and socks, his poor health, his mistress, and eventual marriage. "Tube" doesn't say a thing about Baird during the war. Could it be that the reason governments don't acknowledge his contributions to radar is that they didn't exist? --Wtshymanski 14:28, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
"he tried to persuade English authorities to adopt a 1000 line colour system as standard" It's a pity they waited until the digital age to do so. I wish that experimental 1000+ line video recordings existed from the 1960s and that older analog video formats were designed with such systems in mind.203.214.75.127
[edit] What happened?
Why didn't anyone follow up this technology?:
"In 1928 he demonstrated the first colour television and true stereoscopic television. In 1932 he was the first to demonstrate ultra-short wave transmission. In 1941 he demonstrated a 600 line HDTV colour system, and during 1944 he tried to persuade English authorities to adopt a 1000+ line colour system as standard. He also demonstrated a big screen television system at the London Coliseum, Berlin, Paris and Stockholm."
"Increased public awareness after his successful demonstration of television in January 1926 encouraged a highly productive Experimental period where he developed and demonstrated colour television, 3D television, near-infra-red television and recorded television ("Phonovision")."
"In the early 1940s Baird demonstrated a 600 line high definition color set he called telechrome as well as a stereoscopic 3D set, at the end of world war 2 there was a rush to restart operations of the existing TV system and Baird's colour system was pretty much forgotten when he died."
How did it work? Does the objects used for demonstration still exist? If not, they should be built again and placed on museum. And maybe they can inspire people to improve television even today. All this proves once more that it is not always the best technology and best inventions that wins and keeps evolving.
- As far as I can recall (it's been awhile since I've read up on this, so I might be wrong), Baird's laboratory was bombed during the blitz, and the plans and prototypes for most of his inventions were lost. The article is a little fuzzy on his later inventions, possibly because of the aforesaid lack of information about them. His earlier models still exist though. Gershwinrb 07:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
HDTV? That acronym could confuse people.. could you hook an Xbox360 up to it!?
- Not only did he invent the first working television, but also demonstrated nigh vision and made the first recordings to disc. Way ahead of his time. Some of principles were applied to the first broadcasts from the moon, so don't let anyone say that he didn't invent tv. Plasma tv is tv via pixels, JLB did this as well (it was bulbs which have been replaced by pixels, however it's the same principle). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.134.129 (talk) 19:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
Found this picture for possible use.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.240.15.110 (talk) 17:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Hastings
Shouldnt the article mention Hastings since it is the Birthplace of tv Blackwave...... (talk) 13:34, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] bfg
big freindly georgia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.29.100 (talk) 18:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
