Television theory

[greatbear]

Most people have no idea how a television set operates. Most of those people couldnt care less, just as long as it works properly. The theory and nuts & bolts functioning is beyond what most non-technical types understand. Well, I found a little video clip that offers an in-depth, easy-to-understand explanation of what goes on inside the box. You will be taken through the basics, plus a walk-through of the circuitry. You, dear reader, will come away from this little seminar knowing more about the workings of a television set than you probably bargained for.

Just who is it out there that has a grasp of things techy and electronic and the ability to impart such knowledge in an easily understood fashion? Well, none other than Björk.

Make sense now?

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

LOL.

That's pretty good. :-)

There was a great program on PBS I think it was in the 90's on this very subject, although it was on many different machines called, How Machines Work, or how Things Work or some such, Based in Britain, it described in laymen's terms how things like the TV, the fax machine etc worked and it was fascinating. Even on the VCR and how it degrades after just 3-4 dubes/generations down from the original.

And I should say...

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

That I do know the technical know how of how a TV works, at least here in the US in it's current form, thanks to my former training years ago at tech school. :-)

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

Secret Life of Machines! Twas brilliant and you can download them off the creators site legit cos he owns the rights. He's an amazing sculptor too.

Let me know if you want these, I think I have them somewhere.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Oooo, yes! or better yet, just give me the link if you'd like. :-)

“This recording was made with sticky tape and rust!”

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Was that the show with the lust-worthy Rex Garrod? [drools]

Re: “This recording was made with sticky tape and rust!”

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

Yes it was...*swoon*

[sfmini.livejournal.com]

It's amazing it's going by, almost unnoticed, that the whole technology of the television has just had it's first really major change.... ditching the tube. As refined as it had gotten, the technology of the television hadn't changed much at all.

I learned how a tv works by talking to a television repairman who came to our house to replace tubes. I had to have been 5 years old. I was always a geek.

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

Actually, I would say that going from black and white to color was a major change, and that going from vacuum tubes to transistors was another. I am not sure that going from mechanical tuners to electronic ones was that major, but, all things considered, I'd say they've evolved quite a bit over time.

[bearlover.livejournal.com]

It's a scientifical proof.

Here a little random trivia. The "father" of television, Philo Farnsworth, invented the vacuum tube TV display. He was from Rigby, ID. A suburb of Idaho Falls (my town).

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

I thought the father of TV was Marconi (well his research team) and Logie Baird?

[bearlover.livejournal.com]

I believe prior TV inventions were electromagnetic while Farnsworth's was purely electronic.

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

OMG Bjork is the bestest explainer. I'm completely stoned, and it *still* made perfect sense!

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

Good thing she's so cute.

[beastbriskett.livejournal.com]

Y'know...I think she's right!

[msclwolf.livejournal.com]

awwwwwww bless the little Icelandic pixie being scared of TV as the nasty nasty poet lied to her! ggrrrr

Mind you, have you read some of her lyrics.....perhaps the poet was not completely at fault ha ha ha