Brief history of TV in the UK and abroad

After the 1954 television act that made commercial broadcasting possible in the UK television technology has developed incredibly. One of the most popular television channels in the UK is h BBC and this has been broadcasting since the 1950’s by founder John Reith. Through the decades the BBC was evolving, with everything that happened in the 80 years it captured almost everything and is still evolving today. Another popular channel in the UK is ITV. ITV began broadcasting in 1955 in the London area. The format used to broadcast on in the UK, most of Europe and some of Africa. Television images have changed through the years going from the first colour television to new styles of televisions. Not only do the televisions change but the picture received on the televisions has changed. One of the biggest in satellite TV which allows you to receive more channels that just the five on terrestrial television. After this we were able to receive some of these new channels in better quality, this is called high definition. They also brought out a television that you have to have to get high definition on. Since this it is all about getting a better quality picture, and the new craze people are going to be introduced to in their household is 3D television.  PAL first started broadcasting in 1964. NTSC is the format used for broadcasting in America and Canada. NTSC was developed in 1941 but didn’t start broadcasting until the 1950’s. SECAM is another format used for broadcasting, this is used in Eastern Europe, and it was introduced in the 1960’s. The SECAM format has the same resolution as the PAL format. NTSC has 30 frames transmitted each second where as PAL and SECAM both have 25 frames per second. The technological advances of television have changed at every aspect. Since the aerial ‘rabbit ears’ were invented to get a reasonable picture on their television more and more technology has come about to get the perfect television picture. Colour television first came available to the public in the 1950’s and it was considered the biggest evolution in television technology. We then had plasma television, LCD screen televisions, high definition and the most recent is 3D television. Today having great inventions and great video technological advances isn’t really a big surprise to us, we have learnt to accept new things and we can adapt to the changes easily. There is more than one way to watch television now, you don’t need a television set, you don’t need an aerial and you don’t need wires. In 1996 web television was introduced, and soon after we were then able to access television on mobile phones. It is rare that you will find a mobile phone that you won’t be able to watch television on. There are now plenty of ways to consume television, there are more people watching television because of this and it’s just the evolution of technology.