Abstract
When one views today’s superb high-quality color television pictures—with the prospect of even higher definition, large-screen receivers offering three-dimensional pictures to come—it is difficult to realize how crude were the early attempts to achieve “viewing at a distance.” It is very doubtful whether even the most optimistic and farsighted of the pioneers had any clear vision of what, in the fullness of time, was to be achieved.
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Bray, J. (1995). Pioneers of Television Broadcasting. In: The Communications Miracle. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6038-2_9
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