Television Technology Demystified

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We experience the world around us by seizing its sights and sounds. Science has proven that sight is possible because our eyes are able to capture and our brains to decipher the electromagnetic radiation that is light, at certain frequencies. In the same way, we hear sounds, which are the vibrations of air particles whose frequencies are within the sensing abilities of our ear-brain combination. Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has desired to fix, transport, and recreate these sights and sounds. However, for millennia the only way to pass along this information was to transform it into spoken or written words. These had the power to ignite our imaginations but could not offer the benefit of direct experience that a ...