How Was Video Invented?

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I always wanted to know why film looked better than video. Moving electronic images have as long a history but were invented for a different purpose. This video was sponsored by B&H Photo: www.bhphotovideo.com
Huge thanks to:
Richard Diehl, Video Labguy / videolabguy
www.labguysworld.com
Branch Education for awesome animations
ve42.co/BranchEd
Minutephysics for mechanical TV animations
/ minutephysics
Mark Schubin
Engineer and explainer, SMPTE Life Fellow
www.smpte.org
This is a video I've long wanted to make, about what makes video look like video and, up until 10 years ago or so, not as appealing as film. I grew up with the two technologies (film and video) in parallel and to me they always seemed like two ways of achieving the same ends: recording and replaying moving images. But their histories are quite distinct. Film was always a way to capture moving images for later replaying. Video started out as a way to transfer images from one place to another instantaneously. This dates back to the first fax machine, mechanical TV, live broadcast tv and ultimately videotapes. This history focuses on the early decades of video and not the more recent switches to chip cameras and solid state storage. Maybe that's a story for another day.
Additional resources and references:
The Dawn of Tape: Transmission Device as Preservation Medium
ve42.co/dawnoftape
What Sparked Video Research in 1877? The Overlooked Role of the Siemens Artificial Eye
ve42.co/sparkvideo
Video Preservation Website:
videopreservation.conservation...
Image Orthicon Tube:
interiorcommunicationselectric...
Film vs Digital
stephenfollows.com/film-vs-di...
Eyes of a Generation:
eyesofageneration.com
Television in the US:
www3.northern.edu/wild/th100/t...
www.classictvinfo.com
Music from www.epidemicsound.com "Seaweed" "Capture a Picture 1" "Colorful Animation 4"

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Veritasium 4 年前

If you're watching this right now, it's probably because I posted a gif in the community tab. I'm curious if you: a. have seen the video already b. didn't know it existed and the community post is the first you heard if it c. saw the title and thumbnail before but didn't click it d. other?

Jorge C. M. 4 年前

Morbyphobic 4 年前

JanHL 4 年前

B or C, if i did see it i dont remember

morethejamesx39 4 年前

Iury Cabeleira 4 年前

SmarterEveryDay 4 年前

Dude, maybe I'm biased because we're friends.... But your latest content had been consistently phenomenal. This is excellent.

Veritasium 4 年前

Thanks man! Maybe it’s because we’re friends but that means a lot to me. And thanks for taking the time to help me with the v2512! I was messing around like a noob before our call.

Lahar Azis 4 年前

Now that i realized it, Derek actually uses the "signature" camera of Destin.

E C 4 年前

Fake friendship is fake

#4D5153 4 年前

SmarterEveryDay do you guys ever argue about who has the most subcribers ?

necessaryevil455 2 年前

Amazing. If everyone was as smart as me we would still be using stone tools.

kook 2 年前

If everyone was as smart as me we would be extinct

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 2 年前

If everyone were as smart as me we would have been type 5 civilization by now

Dan D 2 年前

@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ not a smart comment

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 2 年前

@Dan D no it is a smart comment

Robert J. Holtz 2 年前

My father, Sam Holtz, was a legend in broadcast television engineering, telecine, and video post production. He filled my head with all this engineering science and history over the course of most of my life, along with all these technical inner workings you described... just about all of it now a lost art. I watched this video with a deep appreciation for you. Thank you for bringing this knowledge to a new generation and doing it so accurately. I just wish my dad was still around to have watched your video. I know it would’ve put a smile on his face. Peace.

Jack Jwala Joshua 2 年前

Wow! I'll sure like to know about you and your late father. :)

Sagar amskp 2 年前

Big salute to your dad and his peers

Volrath 2 年前

I highly recommend a channel called "Technology Connections" they did a full multipart series on TV and recorded media, everything from video to laser disks, and whole 20 minute videos about elements in this video, like color wheels and other novel ways of broadcasting color. Its a highly interesting series!

Robert J. Holtz 2 年前

@Volrath Thanks! I know the channel well. Been a subscriber for years. Highly interesting indeed. Cheers!

almafuertegmailcom 年前

I think it's imperative that 20th century ingenuity doesn't get lost to history. The 20th century was special, in the sense that it was a time of transition. Before the 20th century, the things we invented lasted for centuries, so we have a lot of time and examples of each tech we used before that time. We won't forget about horse shoeing, or water mills, or traditional swordmaking, because they were done for millenia. The things we do now in the 21st century, each lasts even less, but there is better tech to document each (the internet doesn't forget), and they are built in more straightforward ways. We don't do 4k video in a different way than we do 1080p, or 720p, and we won't do video in a fundamentally different way centuries from now, it'll still be pixels stored and transmitted digitally using a certain format. But in the 20th century, we had just enough tech to do crazy thing, but not enough to do it in a straightforward way, so we had to get creative. And each of those techs was unique, different from the previous one, and lasted for a short enough time that we might just forget about them. In the past 20 years we went from 240p digital video to 360, 480, 720, 1080, 4k, 8k ... basically the same tech, just different quality, codecs, etc. The same for audio. Meanwhile, in the 20th century, we jumped from cylinders to vinyl, to 8-tracks, to cassettes to CDs. From 16mm to VHS to vCDs. From the telegraph to the telephone, from rotary to push button, from analogue over copper to digital over copper, to VoIP. From massive bricks to flip phones to smart phones. All in such a short timeframe. As you said, lost art.

Chickenbread 年前

It's interesting to know that high quality 35mm Film has about as much detail as a 4k Video. The reason most movie studios waited so long to switch to video is not because they waited for better editing techniques, but more because they waited for Video quality to catch up with film quality. That's also the reason why some older Music Videos can be remastered into good looking 4k, but some newer ones can't, the latter being shot in Video. Even today, some movie directors opt to shoot on film, but 70mm IMAX often, rather then 35mm...

Harshit Yadav 年前

Wow, great insight!

Daniel 4 日前

Yup. Film reproduces color more accurately too. This is why older movies tend to look very vibrant and almost overexposed, and newer movies look cooler.

skierpage 年前

Alexander Bain's electromechanical fax at 1:18 is so smart. One person in 1843 could understand electric transmission, clock mechanisms, paper chemistry, and lithography to assemble the whole system!

Samuel Cruz 年前

People in the past knew almost everything, probably because they didnt have to many things to waste time at.

BBM 年前

The answer is that he is not alone. All new based on research that has taken place before it.

Son Goku 年前

@Samuel Cruz and also because at that time there was so much to be discovered and ponder over.... Unlike now...where all the low hanging fruits are plucked and huge funds, technology, management is needed for any R&D.

Samuel Cruz 年前

@Son Goku yes, agreed. But I think that we still have so much to discover.

Son Goku 年前

@Samuel Cruz but that "still so much to be discovered" can't be discovered the way things used to be discovered decades back.... Now you need a team of specialists, director, huge funds, technology, patent uses to just scratch the surface..... Take black hole image for example..... Stacks of hard drives of code and years of research to get just a blur image !!

Michael 2 年前

Damn. Imagine you could tell those folks that you would be able to do all that with a handheld device. They'd be astounded!

jsl151850b 年前

Doctor Emmett Brown was suitably impressed by Marty's camcorder in the first *Back to the Future.*

MANISH IYER 年前

An honest wish 👍🏼

Pilosopher 年前

@Roma A Grandfather-Like paradox.

Roma 年前

@Pilosopher Yeah, and it's likely that in 50 years from now people will be smiling on our pathetic 4k oleds too.

Kalvin Halvorson 4 年前

It’s truly amazing that people were able to think of stuff like that from scratch

Poolguycoolguy 4 年前

Especially back then with limited information and materials. Pioneers.

PinkySuavo 3 年前

I got butterflies in my stomach while watching this video, realising how genious minds were/are out there.

TheApotheosis OfGDot 3 年前

Very few things in this world are done without the wind and losses of those before

BangMaster96 3 年前

+Kalvin Halvorson No, they didn't figure this out from scratch, they built on previous knowledge, it took more than century worth of Engineering and creativity to get to where we are today. Cathode Ray Tubes were not originally invented for displaying videos, but, some Engineer or Physicist figured out that you can use it to display images on a screen. So, you take an invention already made by another scientist, and you add on top of it, you don't make it from scratch. And you work with a team, not by yourself, because it would be near impossible for one person to figure all this out on his own. And i know this because i'm an Engineer, and it's all about team work, and building on previous knowledge. Even today, most technology you use may seem futuristic, and advanced, but it's no different than the technology from the 80's and 90's, we have just gotten more creative in how to better design and manufacture it.

BlargieArg 3 年前

White people*!

Mohn Jarx 年前

It's mind boggling to think how the pioneers of this technology came up with their ideas, let alone figured out how to build them

EBTS-3 年前

Yes, even if we as individuals each have general intelligence our discoveries and actions build up like sediment and create a super intelligence not one lifetime could achieve

MD Zaid 3 ヶ月前

It’s fascinating how the electron gun can be controlled so accurately

Zack 2 年前

I don’t see how everyone just goes about their day to day life not wondering how electricity works. Let alone subjects like this. I’m so glad I chose to go to college and choose a career path to mess around with awesome things everyday. I remember my first couple of semesters of college I thought I was learning magic. I wish there were more people like this guy to show how amazing everything we use everyday really is.

Anthony Alvarado 年前

It's Terrifying that so many people are so comfortable being ignorant! What did you go to College for?

Zack 年前

@Anthony Alvarado first time I got two Associates of applied science in Instrumentstion and controls technology and another Industrial Systems Technology. I’m back in school to get my B.E.E. though. I probably have a year or so left.

coolfool 年前

@Zack good for you, hope this year is going well for you!! good luck with all your future endeavors!

Ceju Online 7 ヶ月前

@Anthony Alvarado Many don't have the opportunity or choice to seek this kind of knowledge. With how society works currently, the ignorant will always be the majority unfortunately

Fikitupper 年前

Technology back then seems to be so much more complicated in certain ways.

José Michael 年前

True

April Dev 年前

Actually it was simpler the problem is we don't appreciate today's technology enough and we think it's simple but if we go deeper in to how things work its so complicated

silent 年前

@April Dev this. Most people don't appreciate most of the work has done til today. W comment.

Ely Powell 年前

I made a comment about how Amazing White people are with all the cool stuff they invented and I got shadow banned. Why is it wrong for me to admire White people?

Native Afro-Ευrasian 年前

@Ely Powell because it's interpreted as saying that those things could not be invented by someone else. Don't focus on the people, focus on the ideas. It's ideas and solutions that make a species survive, not the knowedge about the individual.

H K 4 日前

It's truly amazing how we get to this right now with this readily accessible technological advances. These great people who thought of this from scratch are the true unsung heroes

Sara Beth 4 年前

I'm so glad to see you posting more. Thank you for continuing to educate us.

a51mj12 4 年前

No.

Wae 4 年前

@a51mj12 No u

russdill 4 年前

Also big thank you to B&H

Boco Corwin 4 年前

Scrotus Maximus I see what Jew did there

Sara Beth 4 年前

I'm a pretty active commenter on several of my favorite JPvidrs videos. It would be cool to get paid to comment, but I just generally like Veritasium and also taking money to comment would go against my morals. He's pretty entertaining. Is there something about him I missed? Did he become controversial? I'm going to ignore any other Jewish comments because I'm from Tennessee. I've never met a Jewish person. And I have no reason to dislike them.

jzero4813 3 年前

Having touched on the Nipkow disc, this would make a great segue into spinning-disc confocal microscopy. It's basically the same technique being used today to create some of the most advanced real-time 3D biological microscopy images out there.

far2kthoughts 年前

If human population dies out due to some worldwide catastrophe, human knowledge about things such as Derek's videos must be protected at all costs.

SteelWolf13 年前

The small town of Rigby, Idaho is considered the official birthplace of television, as it was here that inventor Philo T. Farnsworth came up with his idea of an electronic television system. Few People Know That Idaho Is The Birthplace Of Television.

thiagoene 2 ヶ月前

Crazy to think that we went from that massive video tape recorder in 1956 to what we have now in less than the lifespan of a human.

୨ ୧ 20 日前

You can tell that guy knows a lot about this subject and it's very eager to teach it to others.

5MadMovieMakers 4 年前

I forget that JPvid is named after the thing it's gradually replacing

Veritasium 4 年前

Gradually!

Silkwesir 2 年前

before you know it! literally... ...spooky.

J. David Osorio 2 年前

Completely!

Brian Pinto 2 年前

Ummm... What is it replacing ?

Heath Mitchell 2 年前

@Brian Pinto TV

koba 年前

How did they get it all so precise? This is crazy.

Adonis Mateo 年前

these people were genius for sure 👏🏽

Jeffrey Murray 年前

And sometime in that history, a bunch of people with slide rulers put men on the moon. Calculators didn’t exist yet. What percent of the human population is just being carried around by geniuses like these?

Hinsberg Reagent 年前

90% ?

Vaxtin 年前

@Hinsberg Reagent more like 99.99%

FiusionMaster 年前

Agreed

POP TV Online 年前

We should respect those who started this video production cameras and TVs

John Rogers 5 ヶ月前

Derek, I enjoyed this show. Quite interesting to get a wrap up on film and video, as I lived through this period since 1953! Great to see how it was done after just being on the receiving end most of my life. Also I got involved in acquiring and editing video in the mid nineties. Oh, I also enjoyed your show on the wave pool, that is so amazing! Thanks for everything!

Keith Bowman 2 ヶ月前

Richard's obvious passion for video is endearing. I've watched Technology Connection's videos about this subject, and this is a very good compliment to it.

Max Sosa 年前

Kind of makes you think how much we underestimate all the awesome technology we have now

Vodka In Glass of Stalinium 4 年前

History of veritasium 2013:- Uploads once six months or so 2019:- Uploads every alternate week AND WE LOVE IT

M.C. V.A. 4 年前

In ancient Veritasium times it was supposed to be 2 videos a week, I think

Sir Nyanto 4 年前

I'm waiting for him to upload weekly!

Luke Lafreniere 4 年前

Almost makes up for Vsauce

Adrian Arthur Dev_Art 4 年前

nobody noticing his name tho

Michelle Goede 4 年前

@Sir Nyanto if that limits quality not

albert 2 年前

It's awesome how you describe the history so succinctly yet comprehensively, and at the end you challenge us with a relevant question about how all of this technology influences us today. Great content, please keep making more!

Jordysegs89 20 日前

What blows my mind is how sound is recorded onto a simple line of film

Martijn Frazer ヶ月前

Cool to learn the origin of the Emmys! Similarly here in The Netherlands they've have been awarding "the Silver Nipkow Disc" to the best TV shows and people since the 1960s and I had no idea a Nipkow Disc was an actual thing!

Stephen Ferree 年前

Excellent presentation !!! I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s. By age 13 I was riding my bicycle, with western flyer wagon behind, going around the neighborhoods collecting discarded TV sets. I would take them home, remove the tubes take them to the store and test them, and use the good ones to replace bad ones in other sets. Then sold working TV’s in garage sales. I can remember when fast moving TV images became less smeared when the vidicon camera tubes were replaced with the new plumbicon tubes that had a faster response.

pathologicaldoubt 4 年前

Derek: *explains inner-working mechanics of video cameras* Me: Magic. So, it's magic. Got it.

KBBEATS 4 年前

The power of the human brain to understand such things about the natural world... Is the magic.

Shepard_AU 4 年前

@KBBEATS It's a bit different if someone has the understanding of the world being flat.

Andrew Hanson 3 年前

OMG I was thinking the same thing! I even posted my own comment saying so before I found yours lol!

Some kid 3 年前

@KBBEATS no weed is magic nothing else

Joe Ro 3 年前

This is how I always feel after learning how some kind of technology exists. Engineers are basically wizards

Flavor Of The Month 2 年前

Such an excellent breakdown of the history of video. The balance of the technical aspects and real world implications of video w/ examples made this "video" both interesting and educational. Also extra points for noting how this ties into You"Tube" and the Emmys. I've always enjoyed this channel, but this was the video that made me realize I wasn't subscribed yet, so now I'm sub'd. Keep up the great work & top quality content!

PetKing 2 年前

I highly recommend the documentary Side by Side, produced and narrated by Keanu Reeves. It explores the evolution of cinema cameras (from film to digital) and ponders the question, "Is film dying?" With interesting interviews from world-famous directors like Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and many more, this documentary is a wonderful examination of film cameras today.

Gael 年前

Amazing how what we take for granted today for example a camera on your phone would only be dreamt of by people a few decades ago

Richie Duque 2 ヶ月前

This was one of the most fascinating videos I’ve ever seen. I’ve loved to learn more about this topic.

GroovingPict 6 ヶ月前

it's insane to me that the first fax machine was invented three decades before the telephone

Boredman567 4 年前

IIRC, the fact that storing video was difficult meant that a lot of famous TV broadcasts have been lost, even after recorders were adopted. The early episodes of Dr. Who were taped over for later programs, and now the only known recordings are audio tapes made by a viewer. The moon landing footage was also taped over by NASA, so the only existing footage is a video recording of a video broadcast of a video broadcast.

Dom C 4 年前

Key thing to remember is that it was a cultural decision as much as a technological one. The mindset was simply that TV was one and done, like a theatre show. The idea of keeping the early episodes of Doctor Who for posterity seemed inane to most people at the time. That said, taping over the moon landings is pretty ridiculous!

Steve Randall 4 年前

There must be a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.

Travis Scavoni 4 年前

So then, when people watched the moon landings on TV back in the late 60s the video quality was actually better than what we see now?

FAB1150 4 年前

@Travis Scavoni well yeah You can try to see the loss in quality by recording a JPvid video in 480p with your phone's camera that's set to record in 480p, then record the recording again using the same method.

J P 4 年前

@Travis Scavoni the famous video of Neil stepping off the leg onto the surface was from a broadcast camera recording a monitor in mission control. Kind of like how so much footage of the D-Day landings was either lost or destroyed. Very sad! But very odd looking back

John Bode ヶ月前

While many people contributed to the invention of video as we know it today, I have to give the most credit to Hertz for the discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1887 and Einstein for explaining it (for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921).

뿡뿡! ^__^ 年前

You can't just SKIP OVER that initial fax machine! There was nowhere NEAR enough information for any of us to understand how it works. That needs a whole video itself.

Frank Belton-Brown 年前

I remember learning in my history of mass comm class in college how every episode of I Love Lucy you see was recorded by a film camera aimed at a TV. Also, one of the fathers of CRT, Vladimir Zworykin, became so disillusioned with how television changed society that when asked late in life what he felt was his greatest contribution to television, he said "the off-switch".

Experiment IV ヶ月前

i love lucy actually wasn’t telecine. i love lucy was recorded to film, one of the (if not the actual) first tv shows to follow the practice

NeonVisual 2 ヶ月前

Cathode ray tube TVs must have seemed so futuristic and advanced when they first came out. Before that the only moving pictures people saw were from film reels and home video. To actually get a live image beamed into your house would have been insane, and was crazy expensive too, people used to invite their poorer neighbours round to watch live events. Now I've got this little screen in my pocket which unfolds into a bigger screen and has immediate live access to virtually every book, movie, tv show, radio station, song, album, technical paper, rolling news, piece of art or guides and instructions ever created. Oh, and I can use it to speak to pretty much anyone on the planet. We are living in a crazy science fiction future and it all seems perfectly normal.

HascleAvrahm BenYoseph 年前

Your last question in the video "What affects are caused by everybody being able to share, with the public, anything on video caught my attention. I would say it has become very difficult to tell the difference between what is real and what is fake; why, because in addition to everybody being able to share everything, they can dramatically alter what they share by using software.

marvinglenn 4 年前

A technical correction for the graphic animation at 4:15: The coils are swapped. The coils driving the side to side sweep are actually the top and bottom coils, and the vertical sweep is from the side coils. The force imparted on the electrons is at a right angle to the magnetic field its travelling through. (Being also at a right angle to its velocity.)

Es J El 2 年前

Great video. I am an electrician and during one of my classes, on data systems, I asked my instructor about the television, I don't remember his exact response, but I know it wasn't satisfactory. So went down the rabbit trail. Anyway, its fascinating what transitors have done for the world of electronics. I would love to see you do a video on the history of video transmission. Especially because of the patent wars that ensued over it (the first actually was a man who had the idea as a boy).

Rafael Galván 年前

Amazing video, it was really interesting. On a side note, I would have liked the inclusion of the engineer Guillermo González Camarena and his contribution to the color tv

LA Prepper 年前

I'd like to say I appreciate the fact that you had to help convert a VHS tape to a digital file to make this JPvid video happen 🤣😂

Thegamerzom2 年前

It’s crazy how fast things happen like all the components in a tv but it’s funny how modern day microwaves look like old TVs

Kouga 年前

I was always super curious how videos and photos are made. Still quite difficult to understand but really cool video!

Elijah Masquelier 2 年前

people are so damn smart and i'm so damn lucky to have been born in an era where we have all this stuff...because i'm sure as hell not smart enough to have come up with any of this crazy technology

ReptillianStrike 2 年前

Most people aren't. The crazy thing about humanity is that 95% of the population just makes sure that the species survives. The last 5% actually innovate new technology to share with their tribe. In our case, our tribe being the planet.

Sarthak Verma 2 年前

@ReptillianStrike seriusly 5 percent care that is 350 million...rather 0.1 percent.at max 7 million

ReptillianStrike 2 年前

@Sarthak Verma I was pulling numbers out of my ass to prove a point. I wasn't considering the population of the planet when I said 5%

Thulyblu 2 年前

@ReptillianStrike Well, the entire planet except North Korea #HermitKingdom ... (...and small uncontacted tribes people)

equaleyez187 2 年前

Just wait for what's coming! You're glad now but you would have never known if you were born earlier. Same will be said in 50 years. If we're still here of course!

Roberto Ercolani 2 年前

Greatly narrated, interesting and very well assembled. Thanks a lot for this great content!

Sagittarius A* 3 年前

Amazing how much effort you put into your videos. Thanks!

Robloxian Broadcasting Authority 年前

Congratulating everyone who made the models featured in this video and the creator of the Television John Logie-Baird.

Christopher🇬🇧Matthews 3 ヶ月前

Don't matter what country your from or what colour you are just the capability of mankind is amazing. The things were capable of. I love this kind of stuff.

Low Beam Pictures 年前

At the station where I worked, we had an Ampex VR1000A, the first production VTR. Once the hinge broke on the head cover - it did sound like a jet plane.

pixoariz 4 年前

Mechanical TV for the masses! All power to the vidicons, image orthicons and iconoscopes! From a Labguy and Veritasium fan: thoroughly well researched and executed. Thank you.

ytubeanon 年前

it bugs me that the ideas involved with modern video cameras are so complex that it's too hard to imagine inventing it

iLife64 2 ヶ月前

My parents are a tad too young for kinescope but they would tell me stories passed down from my grandparents about the system and the insane generation loss it had. Record a video to record the recording.

Edwin Longcop Angeles 年前

I really like the way how Derek showed this. I hope next topic is about video games. It always amaze me how a video game is been working. About how the simple pacman games works to the latest call of duty games that we have. I want to know, how the creators of the games create it and how they like they know every players posible move on the game, no matter how clever they are, to make it possible.

paul sawczyc 3 年前

The real value of images comes when people look at them 100 or more years later.

Parth Akshay Barange 年前

4 years of electronics engineering has not taught me what this guy had taught me in 13 mins

Humans of VR 4 年前

*My ears and eyes haven't experienced the ancient technology in so long*

Gustavo Garcia 4 年前

Now we know how they built the pyramids with ancient tech

Shreyas JV 4 年前

While it has been phenomenal, I think he's centering too much on himself. Too much of Veritasium logo's and Derek in the video. I come here to listen to scientists and ideas of science. But this was a History video so I guess for this one, its fine. Hope you do rectify later though.

Bob Stevenson 4 年前

Was this comment generated by an ai?

Hansang Bae 3 年前

What's great about your "channel" (remembering the old dial channel selector) is that you are a great story teller. You can distill a lot of information in a short amount of time. Added you on Patreon!

Vishal Parihar 3 年前

These all scientists and engineers of old time are real heroes of the world. Their contribution is the greatest in human history.

Son Goku 年前

The way technology has evolved over years due to the efforts and geniuses of past generations..... I am full of gratitude towards them...

DRONE SUMMIT 🗻 年前

No one else is amazed by camera technology when I bring it up . It’s so fascinating and people look at me like I’m dumb when I wanna know how it all works

eadfg ergf 2 年前

You're JPvid's best quality content maker. And I was wondering about this topic a week before and just forgot about searching about it. Thank you man.

LazerLord10 4 年前

I really enjoy how in-depth you went with all the analog stuff. I love those sorts of electronics.

Neogreenyew 2 年前

It's nuts that they had everything set up to convert light to electrical signals yet their only way of storing that info was to record it with a camera pointed at a tv like so many youtube videos back in the day.

Mr. Nice 年前

Thank you for answering the question how the Cameras worked back in the days. Been wondering about this point for years. Keep up the great work!

Chishannicon 年前

This is the closest I've ever come to understanding how video works. Thanks so much for your explanation!

Fred Abery 3 年前

Fascinating, and brilliantly produced. Kudos, mate!

Daan 3 ヶ月前

This seems way more sophisticated than flat screen TVs.

HoodieDude420 4 年前

Please continue this! This would be awsome if you talked about electron scanning as well!

darkwoodmovies 3 年前

I always find it so interesting how creative old technology was. It blows my mind how CRTs work. The digital versions of everything seems trivial to understand for some reason.

danielxmiller 年前

Probably because digital versions work on the electron level, something we can't see or barely imagine. The older technology is much larger and it's easier for us to see the process actually happening.

Luneytoon 年前

Damn you explained how it all works and it still looks like magic to me

Nick Barth 年前

Cool video, I especially liked the early history you included covering scanning. As an Englishman married to a Scot I waited for the menion of John Logie Baird who actually built a mechanical disc scanning TV system for the BBC before WW2, but I waited in vain. That early but ultimately futile attempt deserves its own video, and I have no doubt there are a bunch of them here on JPvid. All the same I could not help but feel a little sad that you did not refer to the eccentric John Logie. If you're ever in Glasgow there's a working Baird setup in the Science Centre. Did it work? Yes. Did it work well? Of course not!

Willi Hansen 3 年前

This episode could and should have been four times as long.

RoboGenes 2 年前

Wow I feel so lucky to have this handheld device capable of recording and playing back a video. What a great sweep in technology ❤️

Bruceolini and his big weenie 4 年前

It feels like Veritasium filled in for Vsauce after Michael lost his marbles.

Gareth Baus 3 年前

Probably an improvement in the quality of content from an educational viewpoint, even if it is less entertaining.

TreeofLiberty Defense 3 年前

Is that what happened?? Is that why his shows have been so weird? Did the psychedelics get him?

chaser107 3 年前

What are you talking about. Michael matured stylistically

Farhana Sayed Juthi 3 年前

Ahhgg, that Vsauce host is so irritating. Keeps jumping all over the frame. So distracting on topics. :3 Veritasium host is great! Simple and eye shooting and easy to be pace with him. :)

Exauce Mayunga 3 年前

Yeah

robroy habich 3 年前

I knew most of this but it was superbly explained! Some people mention you didn't give credit to this and that inventor but then your video would last 3471 hours at least!

Gustavo Espinoza 3 年前

Dude, I never thought it would be that complex, I don't understand 80% of the video. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!! Also that voice crack at 4:28 had me laughing for a bit. Love your videos man, you're the best!!

Keahi Bailey 3 年前

Funny, but hes human just like everyone else.

Silkwesir 2 年前

Please, don't sell yourself short. I'd bet that if you really didn't understand 80% of the video, you wouldn't have bothered to put a comment in.

WizzardOfPaws 年前

This is so interesting. I remember when televisions had tubes in them and the 7-Eleven had tubed testing stations!

Vitor Cardoso 年前

Great. I always wanted to know how analog video was transmitted and why until certain moment there was just live TV.

Chris Braid 年前

I saw one of those first series Video Recorders in NZ belonging to a Television Studio and on loan to Youth for Christ for a training aid. It was cutting edge back then … now it’s nothing to record on my iPhone and wirelessly send it to my TV or the Internet. Those Tape cassettes were pretty massive …

Ray Mak 4 年前

We are so lucky to be living in this day and age

lettuce 2 年前

i wonder why do i see you everywhere.

MazMazda3 2 年前

Well... it's 2020 now and over a million have already succumbed to it. Luck runs out...

Kevin Cory Walling 2 年前

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Orazmyrat Rejepgeldiyev 2 年前

everyone thought like that

ElectricGun 2 年前

The next generation would probably say the same thing

snaplash 3 年前

If I could travel into the past, I'd go back and demonstrate smartphone video recording to the Ampex engineers who developed the first video tape machine.

John Tomik 3 年前

My first job almost 30yrs was running 8 huge projectors at a movie theater. I can still hear all those sounds and smell those smells. It was awesome!

ヘスリングマイク 10 ヶ月前

I hope you make more follow ups on this topic. The younger generation does not know the gargantuan efforts of the engineers in developing the current technology for image processing. Not to mention the strain it placed on the general populace. 1. The issues of keeping backward compatibility at each step (including black and white to color) 2. The format transitions (VHS vs Beta, CD, DVD, Blue Ray etc) 3. Aspect ratio change ( 3/4 to 9/16) This video is a great start. A great fan of you.

Joshua van Zyl 2 年前

Knowing now that film was better than digital video for nore than half of my lifetime, makes me feel old, but also excited to see the rapidly increasing pace at which technology is improving, I even remember growing up with VHS and listening to vinal for a short while and then CD's that were recordings of the vinal records my parents had, and now I am typing this with vertually a wireless supercomputer, while laying on my bed. I'm 19, thanks for making me feel like 4 times older than that😂

Dev Harlongbi 年前

Its so nostalgic to know all this history . Thank you for showing us all this documentary in such amazing way 👏👏👏👏

Dirk Federmann 4 年前

You might have omitted the PAL part of the television because it would confuse people. But for the completness: PAL has a resolution of 625 lines and works at 50Hz (25 frames per second interlaced) Matt Parker has a good video about why NTSC is 29.97fps ;)

Misteribel 2 年前

It should've been mentioned that the Nipkov disk was also used for early video calling around 1928. DIY kits existed for hobbyists to build such devices. One such is displayed here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_television.

Cc Babu 2 年前

Great job! Really passionate and knowledge imparting Teachers! Divinely gifted professionals! Thanks a lot!

Garibay_Steezy Racing Mx 2 日前

The fact that they knew how to do this way back then makes me wonder what they are not telling us and do I even want to know 🧐

Gibran Bedra 2 ヶ月前

To answer your question, Derek, of "What does this do to society?" The ability to easily film everything about their lives, anytime, and instantaneously publish this video to the public is, it made society addicted to attention. It's created a pandemic of narcissism.

John Smith 年前

Wow. Absolutely wow. So complex and we take this technology for granted.

naota3k 4 年前

Can you imagine.. "Gather round, family! Time to fire up the color-picture tube!" *switch clicks, relays fire, belts and color wheel spin up* *shouting* "SO WHAT DO WE WANT TO SEE TONIGHT?!"

S Bonel 4 年前

More like wait 5-8 minutes before it warms up then reboot it and it will show picture.

zeknife 4 年前

They probably didn't have much to choose from

Bill Vegas 4 年前

Don't forget the rabbit ears! Sometimes one of us had to stand just right next to the tube to pull in that one station.

Nezumi-sama 4 年前

That's funny, because DLP projectors have always used a fast-spinning color wheel (but with more colors and faster), and cheaper ones still do that, and this is the reason when you're seeing an image from one and move your head, you temporarily see a faint rainbow.

naota3k 4 年前

@Nezumi-sama Wow really? I've definitely noticed that weird rainbow when moving around, never knew what caused it.

lui_the_ groovy 3 年前

I honestly learned so much from this video. I love your explaining of things.

Matt Gibbs 年前

My dad always called TV "electric TV", and now it makes sense, he was born in 1937.

Bombastic Buster 2 年前

The Goldmark spinning disc was used on the moon to return color images without extra electronics. Also, Samsung and other companies built DLP projector box tvs in the early 2000s to display HD 1080i and 720p video. A major component used in creating the color display was a color spinning disc setup the light went through prior to hitting the screen. Made beautiful video. John Logie Baird created a large color set in 1946 using the spinning disc technique. GOLDMARK was at CBS and they were first to release a color TV system in the world. It was stopped by NBC bc it was not back compatible to existing b&w tvs. They used the war production act to stop CBS during the Korean War. This gave NBC/RCA time to finish their compatible color TV standard for NTSC.

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