Talk:Mechanical television

TV on the Moon
Wasn't the Apollo TV camera some kind of mechanical hybrid field-sequential system? Can anyone find a reference? --Wtshymanski 22:05, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


 * You mean like this?


 * I found it by Googling "field-sequential color apollo"; there are quite a few more.


 * Enjoy, and please feel free to incorporate this info into the article; I know you planned to! ;-)


 * Atlant 00:35, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Spelling
The choice of using British or American spellings in Wikipedia is dictated mainly by the subject matter of the article. Color mechanical television was mainly an American phenomenon, being used for public closed circuit transmissions in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and for public broadcasts in 1950-1951. In Britain, it never left the laboratory of John Logie Baird. Hence, American spelling "color" is more approrpriate than the British "colour". If you disagree, please discuss it here to gain a consensus before attempting to change it again. — Walloon 19:43, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * My understanding is that it doesn't really matter whether it's in American English or British English, just as long as its internally consistent within an article. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 15:09, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Advertising for Texas Instruments?
"The Scophony system used multiple drums rotating at fairly high speed to create the images. One using a 441-line American standard of the day had a small drum rotating at 39,690 rpm (a second slower drum moved at just a few hundred rpm). Today, DLP mechanical TV technology from Texas Instruments far outstrips the capabilities of the Scophony system."

Seriously? Great article besides this, but what's with the DLP ad? I can understand the need to compare then and now to show that technology has progressed, but sheesh. Throw in a Registered Trademark and a Media Release while you're at it, huh? - Too lazy to register —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.79.9.16 (talk) 21:22, 11 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Agree with lazy anon. Advertising DLP by saying it's better than a 1930s technology, how does anyone even get that idea? I removed it. K37b8e4fd (talk) 20:19, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Anecdotal content and POV language?
The entire section about flying spot scanners is unreferenced and half of it is written like an anecdote, which makes the article inconsistent in style and not entirely appropriate for the context. I see how the anecdote could be relevant, but I am not sure it adds any information in particular.

Furthermore, the section "Aspect ratios for different purposes" also has significant style problems, but an even bigger concern is neutrality:
 * "These inventors realized that television is about relationships between people. From the very beginning, these inventors allowed picture space for two-shots. Soon, images increased to 60 lines or more. The camera could easily photograph several people at once. Then even Baird switched his picture mask to a horizontal image. Baird's "zone television" is an early example of rethinking his extremely narrow screen format. For entertainment and most other purposes, even today, landscape remains the more practical shape."

It's a bit of a stretch to claim the authority to decide what "television is about" and claiming that landscape is more practical for any purposes than any other format is a purely aesthetic judgment. If nobody objects, I will be removing these parts soon. - K37b8e4fd (talk) 20:14, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Google doodle
Sorry but out of everything there is to say about this technology, the fact that there was a google doodle in January 2016 does not belong in the lead. And probably not anywhere else either. It's trivia. 220.241.247.161 (talk) 21:01, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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