- Nearly 36 percent mobile phone users can now watch the video beamed straight in their phones and the trend is still rising.
- In year 1926, J.L. Baird first displayed television which had only 30 lines and gave coarse image. Currently the digital signal of the television sends pictures with 1080 lines.
- In 1936, Kálmán Tihanyi described the principle of plasma television, the first flat panel system.
- A 103-inch plasma TV from Panasonic is the largest plasma TV currently available in the market, costing approximately around $70,000.
- The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
- By the time the American child reaches 14, on an average they have seen around 11,000 murders on television.
- Costing €100,000 (around $140,000), the Yalos Diamond is the most expensive TV in the world.
- The television advertisement first broadcasted on 1st July, 1941 in New York. The advertisement was for Bulova Watch for 20 seconds. It was aired before a game of baseball played between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The cost of air buy during that time was only $9.
- By 1927, Russian inventor Léon Theremin developed a mirror drum-based television system which used interlacing to achieve an image resolution of 100 lines.
- In 2008, the cost of 30 seconds advertisement was $2.7 million in the Super Bowl broadcast. It is the world’s most costly airtime.
- The Late Late Show of Ireland which started in 1962 and The Tonight Show which started in 1954 are the longest running talk show in the world.
- NASA has announced that they have lost all of their original tapes of Apollo 11’s TV transmission in August, 2006.
- Queen Elizabeth II has launched her own YouTube channel after fifty years when she first address for the Christmas to the public of UK.
- Sony began selling VCRs in 1970 that was capable of recording the television shows. However, Sony was sued by the film studios for copyright piracy. Later on, the Supreme Court backed Sony.
14 interesting facts about Television
