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Vintage flat-panel matrix TV

Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
in General Discussion
Check out this flat-panel matrix TV, 48x48 pixel neon matrix. What's more, Charles Francis Jenkins invented this way back in 1928.

I was just so impressed to come across something as ambitious as a matrix display from that period.
1928tv.png
465 x 360 - 224K

Comments

  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    The beauty of neon pixels was that they had a built in form of memory. It took a higher voltage to light the pixel than it did to keep it on, so a small increase in the x and y voltage could turn it on, and a small decrease could turn it off.
  • DigitalBobDigitalBob Posts: 1,486
    48 X 48 not exactly high def. I wonder what the video driver was back in that day.
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    DigitalBob wrote: »
    48 X 48 not exactly high def. I wonder what the video driver was back in that day.
    Big valves!

    This one's definately for heater ;)
  • evanhevanh Posts: 15,187
    Pacman would only be one pixel though!
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    That's a great old picture, I wonder if this ever found a use in advertising. Maybe it is where they got the idea for the display on Goodyear blimps.
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