Innovations in Tv

Ninety-nine percent of households in The United States own a television set. Americans everywhere watch hours of TV. However, television has not always been the way it is now. Over the years, television and television broadcasting has had several innovations. There are three innovations that are particularly pivotal in creating the kind of TV that existed today. These innovations are as follows: The adoption of RCA’s color TV system, the conversation from standard analog TV to high-definition digital TV, and the introduction of flat-panel television sets. First, the introduction of color television was undeniably important. According to a study done during the rise of color television (Schaps & Guest, 38), color events “clarified or accentuated…so that they are more easily communicated,” as opposed to black-and-white television. In the late 1940’s, the race for color began. The Joint Technical Advisory Committee was formed to address color TV. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) developed a color system and presented it before the committee. The CBS system was ruled superior against several competitors. Meanwhile, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was working on its own system, but declined the chance to present it to the committee at its first meeting. Just before the committee would release its report, RCA finally introduced their system, but to no avail. CBS’s system was still ruled superior and broadcasting would soon begin in the United States. However, the CBS system was not compatible with previous television sets, which meant that color broadcasts could not be viewable on a black-and-white TV at all. The desire for a compatible system caused the National Television System Committee, who had established television standards in the 1940’s, decided to reform in 1950. It declared a new compatible standard in favor of RCA’s system. CBS’s system was dropped and color began to develop. Bonanza became the first hour-long show to be filmed entirely in