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was limited. In the era prior to low-cost, high-speed broadband service, its video quality was found to be generally poor by the public with images shifting jerkily between frames, due to
British phone lines that generally provided less than 3.4 kHz of bandwidth. British Telecom had initially expected the device, manufactured by
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Kyocera over the two year development period included the camera module's placement within the phone at a time when electronic components had not been fully reduced in size, as well as increasing its data transmission rate. After its release
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Relate 2000, which was released for sale in 1993, costing between £400-£500 each. The Relate 2000 featured a 74 millimetres (2.9 in) flip-up colour LCD display screen operating at a nominal rate of 8 video frames per second, which could be depressed to 3-4 frames per second if the PSTN bandwidth
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The $ 500M figure is attributed only to the AT&T and Bell Labs' 15 year program covering its
Picturephone Mod I and Mod II versions. Earlier videotelephony programs during the later half of the 1920s, 1930s, late 1940s and 1950s, plus the AT&T VideoPhone 2500 model program of the late 1980s
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Picturephone "Mod I" (Model No. 1) and then its upgraded "Mod II" programs, were a continuation of its many years of prior research during the 1920s, 1930s, late 1940s and 1950s. Both Picturephone programs, like their experimental AT&T predecessors, were researched principally
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The VP-210 was released in May 1999 and used its single front-facing 110,000-pixel camera to send two images per second through Japan's PHS mobile phone network system. Although its frame rate was crude and its memory is considered tiny in the present day, the phone was viewed as "revolutionary" at
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Mitsubishi also marketed its lower-cost VisiTel LU-500 image phone in 1988 costing about US$ 400, aimed at the consumer market. It came with reduced capabilities but had with a larger black and white display. Other
Japanese electronic manufacturers marketed similar image transfer phones during the
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Despite AT&T's various videophone products meeting with commercial failure, they were widely viewed as technical successes which expanded the limits of the telecommunications sciences in several areas. Its videotelephony programs were critically acclaimed for their technical brilliance and even
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In addition to an installation charge of $ 150 for the first set, companies paid $ 160 per month ($ 947/month in 2012 dollars) for the service on the first set and $ 50 per month for each additional set. Thirty minutes of video calling was included with each
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Saburi also stated that their R&D section had "nourished for several years before" they received project approval from their top management which had encourage such forward-thinking research, because they "also believed that such a product would improve
Kyocera's brand image." Their research
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were conducted by CNET in France in 1972, with its first commercial applications for videophones appearing in 1984. The delay was due to the problem of insufficient bandwidth, with 2 Mb per second being required for transmitting both video and audio signals. The problem was solved worldwide by the
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Picturephone system used contemporary crossbar and multi-frequency operation. Lines and trunks were six wire, one pair each way for video and one pair two way for audio. MF address signaling on the audio pair was supplemented by a Video Supervisory Signal (VSS) looping around on the
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Alabama news article reported that a "...technician of the American Television Institute, the Roche Home Equipment Company... and through the medium of a scientific marvel...
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telephone service lines used by several other videoconferencing manufacturers. It was limited by analog phone line connection speeds of about 19 Kilobits per second, the video portion being 11,200 bit/s, and with a maximum frame rate of 10 frames per second, but typically much slower, as low as a
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AT&T developed a refined Picturephone throughout the late 1960s, resulting in the "Mod II" (Model No. 2), which served as the basis for AT&T's launch of the first true video conferencing service. Unlike earlier systems, in which people had to visit public videophone booths, any company or
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in 1984. The Lumaphone was marketed by Mitsubishi Electric of America in 1986 as the Luma LU-1000, costing US$ 1,500, designed with a small black and white video display, approximately 4 centimetres (1.6 in) in size, and a video camera adjacent to the display which could be blocked with a
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for safekeeping. Written under the pseudonym "Electrician", one article earlier claimed that "an eminent scientist" had invented a device whereby objects or people anywhere in the world "....could be seen anywhere by anybody". The device, among other functions, would allow merchants to transmit
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camera and then transferred to a storage tube or magnetic drum for transmission over regular phone lines at two-second intervals to the receiving unit, which displayed them on a small cathode-ray television tube. AT&T had earlier promoted its experimental video for telephone service at the
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However Dr. Alexander Graham Bell personally thought that videotelephony was achievable even though his contributions to its advancement were incidental. In April 1891, Dr. Bell actually did record conceptual notes on an "electrical radiophone", which discussed the possibility of "seeing by
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was coined in 1935. Prior to that time there appeared to be no standard terms for "video telephone", with expressions such as "sight-sound television system", "visual radio" and nearly 20 others (in English) being used to describe the marriage of telegraph, telephone, television and radio
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third of a video frame per second. The VideoPhone 2500 used proprietary technology protocols, including AT&T's Global VideoPhone Standard (GVS). Again, AT&T met with very little commercial success, selling only about 30,000 units, mainly outside the United States.
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personal communication tools. One day a simple idea hit us - 'What if we were able to enjoy talking with the intended person watching his/her face on the display?' We were certain that such a device would make cell phone communications much more convenient and enjoyable."
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displays within their housings. The cameras were located atop their screens to help users see eye to eye. Later generation display screens were larger than in the original demonstration units, approximately six inches (15 cm) square in a roughly cubical cabinet.
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capable of displaying 65,000 colors, and was able to process two video frames per second. The 155 gram (5.5 oz.) camera could also take 20 photos and convey them by e-mail, with the camera phone retailing at the time for 40,000 yen, about US$ 325 in 1999.
412:. The system eventually operated with more than 1,000 km (620 miles) of coaxial cable transmission lines. The videophones were integrated within large public videophone booths, with two booths provided per city. Calls between Berlin and Leipzig cost
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1,500 (approximately $ 3,260 in current dollars) and later dropping to $ 1,000 ($ 2,110 in current dollars), marketed by its Global VideoPhone Systems unit. The VideoPhone 2500 was designed to provide low-frame rate compressed color video on ordinary
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telephone lines (higher resolution colour videophones would require even far greater capabilities). After the Second World War, Bell Labs resumed its efforts during the 1950s and 1960s, eventually leading to AT&T's Picturephone.
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also slowed AT&T's efforts, and few customers signed up for the service in either city. Customers peaked at 453 in early 1973. AT&T ultimately concluded that its early Picturephones were a "concept looking for a market".
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began developing a videophone in the mid-1960s, intending to market it to government, institutions, businesses and industry, but not to consumers due to AT&T's lack of success in that market segment. Tests were conducted in
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was one of three French companies that sought to develop advanced videophones in the early 1970s, spurred by AT&T's Picturephone in the United States. Initial plans by Matra included the deployment of 25 units to France's
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flashed a living picture over an ordinary telephone wire. Forming a practical insight into things that are to come, the television contrivance afforded a small, but clear, picture of speakers at each end of the wire."
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for unequaled video quality and ease of use with a video relay service (VRS). Favourable reviews quickly led to its popular usage at educational facilities for the deaf, and from there to the greater deaf community.
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of the U.K., inventors of the world's first functional television. During its life the German system underwent further development and testing, resulting in higher resolutions and a conversion to an all-electronic
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offices, this being the most widespread of the relatively modern kind. Hundreds of technicians attended schools to learn to operate the Cable Equalizer Test Set and other equipment, and to install Picturephones.
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became Bell's largest Picturephone customer, leasing 12 sets. The following year, Picturephone service expanded to central Chicago and the suburb of Oak Brook, before expanding to other large East Coast cities.
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had 16 demonstration models of its Viewphone built, meant to be the equivalent to AT&T's Picturephone. Their initial attempt at a first generation commercial videophone later led to the
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of ordinary telephone cable, two pairs for video and one for audio and signaling. Cable amplifiers were spaced about a mile apart (1.6 kilometres) with built-in six-band adjustable
215:(from Greek: "image-sound"), which operated at 18 frames per second and occupied half a room full of equipment cabinets. An early U.S. test in 1927 had their then-Commerce Secretary
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the novel uses they experimented with. The research and development programs conducted by Bell Labs were highly notable for their beyond-the-state-of-the-art results produced in
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selenium speck is presented to an illuminated object, it may be possible that the eye in the darkened receiver, should perceive, not merely light, but an image of the object ...
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system under its APRIS, or Alcoa Picturephone Remote Information System. APRIS let users retrieve information from Alcoa's databases, controlled by the buttons on their
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conducted extensive research and development of videophones, eventually leading to public demonstrations of its trademarked "Picturephone" product in the 1960s. Its
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along with his team of more than 200 scientists, engineers and technicians, intending to develop it for both telecommunication and broadcast entertainment purposes.
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showed that a "cell phone with a camera and color display provided a completely new value for users, It could be used as a phone, a camera and a photo album".
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network from 1981 to 1988, serving several large German cities, and also created one of Europe's first public switched broadband services in 1989.
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along with his team of more than 200 scientists, engineers and technicians. The Bell Labs early experimental model of 1930 had transmitted
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intellectual property rights he believed were worth $ 5,000,000. After reviewing his claim Dr. Bell denounced the supposed invention as a "
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that Bell Labs would eventually resolve. Signal compression, and its later sibling
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Nuttall, Nick (March 26, 1993). "Well, Hello, How Nice To See You; Videophones".
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The Kyocera VP-210 Visual Phone was the first commercial mobile videophone. The
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2134:"The World's First Videophone Service: Telepresence 1936 Style"
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3014:"Desperately Seeking Saburi: Finding the Camera Phone Creator"
2728:, BritishTelephones.com website. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
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Goebel, G. "Das Fernsehen in Deutschland bis zum Jahre 1945",
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1994:. New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 12–13, 254–255.
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and believed the article was submitted as an elaborate hoax.
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Television: An International History of the Formative Years
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List of video telecommunication services and product brands
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2152:"IEEE Global History Network: Harold S. Osborne Biography"
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postal service would decades later develop and deploy its
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2340:"Future Calling: Videophones in the World of The Jetsons"
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Recorder", March 22, 1910. Retrieved 2009-04-05 from the
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1773:"Pictures By Wire Sent With Success for the First Time"
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1372:"Telephonoscope, A Cartoon of a Television/Videophone"
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2799:Intelligent Multimedia Data Hiding: New Directions
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3036:"For the Deaf, Communication Without the Wait"
2156:IEEE Global History Network website, 2009–2012
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678:AT&T's advanced Mod II Picturephone (1969)
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1420:The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review
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662:To deploy Picturephone service, new wideband
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114:discreetly deposited a sealed container of a
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1968:. St. Petersburg, Florida. 1 September 1934.
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296:Closed-circuit videophone systems: 1936–1940
184:technologies employed in early experiments.
4403:Global telecommunications regulation bodies
3034:Fitzgerald, Thomas J. (December 18, 2003).
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2598:"Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–"
1484:"The Evolution of Picturephone Service"
1467:https://www.histv.net/electroscope-1877
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330:and connected together via a dedicated
209:electromechanical television-videophone
2823:Mizoguchi, Karen (February 16, 2021).
2108:Boothroyd, David (February 26, 2013).
1859:
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565:First video conferencing service: 1970
486:AT&T Picturephone Mod I: 1964–1970
80:Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique
2933:Science & Society Picture Library
2885:Atari–Mitsubishi Picture Phone - 1985
2596:Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
2020:Archiv für das Postund Fernmeldewesen
666:were designed and installed into the
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2957:"First mobile videophone introduced"
1734:"2-Way Television in Phoning Tested"
1714:Kennedy Jr., T.R. (April 13, 1930).
909:video coding and decoding algorithms
585:and Chairman and CEO John Harper of
203:, which were forerunners of today's
2866:Booth, Stephen A. (February 1988).
1219:availability of high speed Internet
436:transmission system to replace its
45:"Fiction becomes fact": Imaginary "
2217:"Georg Oskar Schubert (biography)"
1991:Television in Science and Industry
1631:. Department of Computer Science,
1624:Andberg, Sami (December 5, 2008).
1175:Videophone improvements: post-2000
876:The French Matra videophone (1970)
824:Other early videophones: 1968–1984
25:
3115:, History of Television website.
2977:Yegulalp, Serdar (May 11, 2012).
2618:Brooks, John M. (February 1993).
2366:"Developing Picturephone Service"
2015:, Vol. 29, p. 28, September 1956;
1227:Federal Communications Commission
989:Digital videotelephony: 1985–1999
591:Westinghouse Electric Corporation
416:3½, approximately one sixth of a
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2338:Novak, Matt (January 28, 2013).
1494:(9). Bell Laboratories: 282–291.
1465:, March 29, 1877. Reproduced on
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2364:Hall, Arthur D. (Spring 1964).
2315:. June 29, 2012. Archived from
1914:Beverly, O.T. (28 April 2012).
1482:Carson, D.N (October 1, 1968).
931:, a popular TV show host (1969)
447:(video telephone booths, from "
438:mechanical Nipkow scanning disc
354:for its transmitter (a form of
257:not visible), exhibited at the
2909:Vizard, Frank (January 1989).
2715:. London, England. p. 31.
2488:"How to use your Picturephone"
2056:"Public Television In Germany"
1555:Lange, André (March 2, 2003).
1223:sponsored video relay services
1087:was developed and marketed by
1:
4475:History of telecommunications
1890:"Herbert E. Ives (biography)"
1740:. April 10, 1930. p. 25.
1392:magazine, December 9th, 1878.
935:In Sweden, electronics maker
316:were installed in the German
4424:Telecommunication portal
4205:Telecommunications equipment
3354:Telecommunication portal
2772:. Springer. pp. 11–13.
2590:American Antiquarian Society
2570:American Antiquarian Society
2066:(3462): 391. March 7, 1936.
2036:, Vol. 8, pp. 399–404, 1930.
1761:. April 8, 1927. p. 20.
1660:. April 8, 1927. p. 20.
1544:: 53–56, 62. August 1, 1906.
1403:Distant vision (c 1880–1920)
1249:History of telecommunication
1193:Significant improvements in
814:in the science fiction film
358:) and a 20 cm (8 inch)
166:electromechanical television
91:as a fictional invention of
3941:Alexander Stepanovich Popov
2766:Belmudez, Benjamin (2014).
2006:. This work in turn cites:
1701:Online Etymology Dictionary
1563:(in French). Archived from
1197:quality of service for the
1121:Personal Handy-phone System
997:and decompression software
902:Studies of applications of
776:Plain Old Telephone Service
302:Gegensehn-Fernsprechanlagen
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3645:Telecommunications history
1793:The Outlook For Television
1779:. May 20, 1924. p. 1.
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535:1964 New York World's Fair
524:1939 New York World's Fair
314:closed-circuit televisions
259:Museum of the Moving Image
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4253:Public Switched Telephone
4065:telecommunication circuit
4026:Fiber-optic communication
3771:Francis Blake (telephone)
3566:Optical telecommunication
3344:
3229:Communications satellites
2911:"Telephony With Pictures"
2868:"Telephony With Pictures"
2309:"Debut Of The Videophone"
1388:George du Maurier (1878)
1279:Timeline of the telephone
1152:the time of its release.
1046:discrete cosine transform
985:of the same time period.
765:Later development (1990s)
4164:Orbital angular-momentum
3601:Satellite communications
3440:Communications satellite
2802:. Springer. p. 41.
2403:Bell Laboratories Record
2034:Bell Laboratories Record
1790:Dunlap, Orrin E (1932).
1580:Bell, Alexander Graham.
1542:Electrician and Mechanic
1488:Bell Laboratories Record
1274:History of communication
1254:History of the telephone
1239:History of mobile phones
1093:Atari Video Game Company
1068:in 1988, and subsequent
911:, also known as codecs.
801:information technologies
360:cathode ray display tube
205:fax (facsimile) machines
199:developed by AT&T's
4043:Molecular communication
3866:Gardiner Greene Hubbard
3695:Undersea telegraph line
3430:Cable protection system
3224:Cable protection system
2700:(3). November 24, 1966.
2692:"A Viewphone Service".
2675:"Ericsson's Videophone"
2510:Encyclopædia Britannica
2373:Bell Telephone Magazine
2176:Kasher, Steven (1992).
1918:. Mobile Press Register
1831:Mäkinen, Lauri (2007).
1672:"Videophone definition"
1538:"Seeing By Electricity"
1469:retrieved 14 July 2024
1449:Retrieved 14 July 2024.
1416:"Seeing By Electricity"
1225:authorized by the U.S.
1211:video compression codec
923:Swedish Prime Minister
639:, and transmitted on a
332:broadband coaxial cable
219:address an audience in
120:Smithsonian Institution
4185:Communication protocol
3971:Charles Sumner Tainter
3786:Walter Houser Brattain
3731:Edwin Howard Armstrong
3539:Information revolution
2289:Mulbach 1995. Pg. 294.
2028:"Two-Way Television",
1858:Cite journal requires
1676:Merriam-Webster Online
1633:University of Helsinki
1606:Bell, Alexander Graham
1332:Information Technology
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1073:video coding standards
1064:, standardised by the
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555:Grand Central Terminal
490:In the United States,
449:far sight speech place
418:British pound sterling
382:
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336:Paul von Eltz-Rübenach
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116:Graphophone phonograph
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4159:Polarization-division
3891:Narinder Singh Kapany
3856:Erna Schneider Hoover
3776:Jagadish Chandra Bose
3756:Alexander Graham Bell
3487:online video platform
3364:Telephones portal
2743:University of Salford
2662:: 140. July 15, 1971.
2428:"Expo Lounge website"
1336:touch-tone telephones
1259:History of television
1187:Further information:
1182:
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1058:video coding standard
1029:(VGA) quality video (
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429:Baird Television Ltd.
410:telephone switchboard
356:mechanical television
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69:Alexander Graham Bell
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4001:Vladimir K. Zworykin
3961:Almon Brown Strowger
3931:Charles Grafton Page
3586:Prepaid mobile phone
3514:Electrical telegraph
3326:Telephone newspapers
3020:. November 18, 2005.
2450:. February 14, 2008.
2344:Smithsonian Magazine
2313:AT&T Techchannel
2271:on December 24, 2013
2206:Burns 1998, Pg. 530.
1461:The Electroscope in
1079:Japanese videophones
1048:(DCT), developed by
1027:Video Graphics Array
1005:in the early 2000s.
968:In 1970 the British
845:adding missing items
621:horizontal scan rate
445:Fernsehsprechstellen
269:Bell Labs' Manhattan
3951:Johann Philipp Reis
3710:Wireless revolution
3672:The Telephone Cases
3529:Hydraulic telegraph
3249:Mobile phone signal
2178:"The Art of Hitler"
2140:. October 20, 2010.
2072:1936Natur.137Q.391.
1966:Evening Independent
1954:Burns 1998. Pg. 528
1894:BairdTelevision.com
1833:"Mobile Videophone"
1594:Library of Congress
1509:Burns 1998. p. 217.
1203:Sorenson Media Inc.
1189:Video relay service
1133:Kyocera Corporation
1097:Mitsubishi Electric
1052:, T. Natarajan and
979:Marconi Electronics
970:General Post Office
607:Picturephone Mod II
472:Deutsche Bundespost
352:flying-spot scanner
4149:Frequency-division
4126:Telephone exchange
3996:Charles Wheatstone
3926:Jun-ichi Nishizawa
3901:Innocenzo Manzetti
3836:Reginald Fessenden
3571:Optical telegraphy
3404:Telecommunications
3239:Free-space optical
3040:The New York Times
2681:on March 23, 2012.
2673:Jonvallen, Petra.
1759:The New York Times
1738:The New York Times
1720:The New York Times
1697:"Video definition"
1526:. January 4, 1902.
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793:telecommunications
758:New York Telephone
747:Commercial failure
650:cameras and small
617:vertical scan rate
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539:Telephone Pavilion
508:uncompressed video
461:1936 Olympic Games
427:, partly owned by
322:(post offices) in
306:Dr. Georg Schubert
281:signal compression
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4200:Store and forward
4195:Data transmission
4109:Network switching
4060:Transmission line
3906:Guglielmo Marconi
3871:Internet pioneers
3736:Mohamed M. Atalla
3705:Whistled language
3370:
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3203:Answering machine
3076:978-0-85296-914-4
2915:Popular Mechanics
2872:Popular Mechanics
2188:. MIT Press: 59.
2030:Bell Laboratories
1520:"Seeing By Phone"
1340:videoconferencing
1015:video compression
1009:Video compression
995:video compression
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789:materials science
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3991:Thomas A. Watson
3846:Oliver Heaviside
3831:Philo Farnsworth
3806:Daniel Davis Jr.
3781:Charles Bourseul
3741:John Logie Baird
3450:Data compression
3445:Computer network
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1304:
1244:History of radio
1110:teleconferencing
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285:data compression
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112:Volta Laboratory
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3107:Further reading
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1567:on 2016-05-13.
1561:HistTV.free.fr
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