Digital tv switchover/ off warning

[Lazarus]

.............. the american (forgot his name) invented the CRT TV....

I was intrigued by this, so have while away a few nanoseconds on Google and come up with two names:

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American inventor working for Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a privately backed farm boy from the state of Utah.

Obviously, I cribbed that, but the article I got it from is really quite interesting.

Here is a Linkie _http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm

So although mich11189 also unearthed Farnsworth (So to speak!), the bag of worms remains well and truly open.

 

[Llew]

I reckon that Marconiphone TV can be described as the first flat-screen television

The image from the CRT hidden in the cabinet is reflected onto a mirror in the lid, which is hinged at 45 degrees.

Renovation of this TV can be followed here -

_www.radiocraft.co.uk/702.htm