Technology

The BBC in 1986 details what went wrong with the planned BBC/IBA satellite service

Dan Farrimond takes a trip to Republica in Berlin to experience a teletext block party

1982: another report into cable television

A tour around the bits in between the testcards

Comparing VHF and UHF

From 1967, the BBC gives instructions on how to use the new colour testcard

How Sky welcomed new analogue viewers in 1996

What you can see from the BBC in the new, exciting world of digital television

Extracting colour information from black and white video images is now possible

First to go digital

Professionals worse off than viewers

Broadcasting gear changes too fast – and support suffers

An insight into Medical Photography & TV, 1966 to 1980

Do viewers and listeners care about technical quality? Yes and no.

The impact of podcasting on the future of TV and radio

Transferring the status quo

Free satellite vs digital terrestrial. DTT wins

We’ve arrived in the future we were always promised.

On being educated by television and radio

Multiplexing doesn’t work

The death of teletext

14:9 isn’t a compromise – it’s an easy way out

Television is shrinking

Widescreen television is the future. But it’s not the past

A history of video