15 April 2022
A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments
1 November 2021
Make sure your television set is fully adjusted to improve your viewing
1 February 2021
Will television have an effect on voters at election time? Leeds University plan to find out, using an ‘electronic brain’ in 1959
18 November 2020
Will it ever be possible to exchange television across the Atlantic? Bell Laboratories have a plan to lay a cable in 1955
9 September 2020
Anglia Television is about to come on air, meaning lots of technical developments
20 July 2020
The future of black-and-white is here: subjective colour
24 June 2019
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
28 January 2019
From doing the cinema live to doing the stage on video, television’s mise en scène keeps changing… whilst still staying the same
6 December 2018
The first geostationary satellite linking Europe and North America goes into service in 1965
17 September 2018
A radio reviewer looks on incredulously at the coming of television to the United States in 1935
10 September 2018
Practical Television in 1962 gives advice on how to receive European television in the UK: grab your soldering iron
20 August 2018
‘Professor’ A M Low explains to people who want the new ITV in 1955 just why they’ve got to change aerials and TV sets
19 July 2018
A simplified guide to how the pictures get from the studio to the transmitter to your home from 1966
11 June 2018
How Central’s new £15 million television centre in Birmingham uses state-of-the-art technology to put the ‘broad’ in broadcasting in 1996
26 March 2018
The IBA introduces its experimental ‘Oracle’ service in the early 1970s
8 March 2018
Showing filmed material on television is difficult, as these 1956 instructions prove
5 July 2017
Television cameras around the home, recording their every move? 1962 celebrities say yes please!
12 June 2017
Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele
15 May 2017
Your guide to the latest television designs on display at Earls Court in 1955
24 April 2017
A 1963 guide to the options available for 625 lines, colour and ITV-2
17 April 2017
A 1963 discussion of how to use the tuning signal to get perfect 405-line VHF black and white pictures
16 January 2017
The BBC in 1986 details what went wrong with the planned BBC/IBA satellite service
15 November 2016
The changes the make-up artists at Thames, Yorkshire and ATV had to make for the introduction of colour TV
24 May 2016
Dan Farrimond takes a trip to Republica in Berlin to experience a teletext block party
18 August 2014
From 1967, the BBC gives instructions on how to use the new colour testcard
26 October 2008
Extracting colour information from black and white video images is now possible