|
Early TV in the UK
 |
Alan Blumlein also developed a stereo sound film system very similar to the Dolby system of the 1970s
|
 |
 |
 |
Francis Thomson - the 'biographer' of Alan Blumlein who did not produce a biography - here with the Blumlein family at the blue plaque unveilng in Ealing
|
|
An early post-war BBC TV Outside Broadcast
|
|
|
 |
In 1967 the UK pioneered the used of 625 line PAL colour, invented in Germany by Walter Bruch of Telefunken
|
| |
|
 |
The BBC made this experimental video recorder called Vera in the 1950s
|
 |
The BBC then bought one of the first Ampex VTRs
|
While the BBC and IBA set the UK standard, France (and the Soviet Union) adoped Secam. East Germany used Secam to stop its citizens watching West Berlin colour TV
|
|
|
The PAL system (Peace At Last) solved the colour problems experienced with North America's NTSC sytem (Never Twice the Same Colour)
|
|
| |
|
 |
In the pre-digital era, the BBC made the quartz delay lines that the PAL system needed
|
|
|
In the early 1990s Nokia was still in the TV business, with this 'Olympic' set
|
|
 |
The UK lead the world into mass adoption of Digital TV through an ordinary aerial, using the European DVB system
|
|
