television set

{{Main article|History of television}}

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Mechanical televisions were commercially sold from 1928 to 1934 in the United Kingdom, France,[http://www.tvhistory.tv/Baird%20TV-Early%20Years.htm Early British Television: Baird], Television History: The First 75 Years. the United States, and the Soviet Union.[http://www.tvhistory.tv/pre-1935.htm Pre-1935], Television History: The First 75 Years. The French model shown does not appear to have entered production. The earliest commercially made televisions were radios with the addition of a television device consisting of a neon tube behind a mechanically spinning disk with a spiral of apertures that produced a red postage-stamp size image, enlarged to twice that size by a magnifying glass. The Baird "Televisor" (sold in 1930–1933 in the UK) is considered the first mass-produced television, selling about a thousand units.[http://www.tvhistory.tv/PRE-1935-BAIRD.htm Pre-1935 Baird Sets: UK], Television History: The First 75 Years.

Karl Ferdinand Braun was the first to conceive the use of a CRT as a display device in 1897.{{cite book |last1=Lehrer |first1=Norman H. |title=Flat-Panel Displays and CRTS |date=1985 |publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. |isbn=978-94-011-7062-8 |editor-last=Tannas |editor-first=Lawrence E. Jr. |location=New York |pages=138–176 |chapter=The Challenge of the Cathode-Ray Tube |doi=10.1007/978-94-011-7062-8_6}} The "Braun tube" became the foundation of 20th century TV.{{Cite web |title=Karl Ferdinand Braun |url=https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/karl-ferdinand-braun |website=The Linda Hall Library}} In 1926, Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrated the first TV system that employed a cathode-ray tube (CRT) display, at Hamamatsu Industrial High School in Japan.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160101180643/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/ Kenjiro Takayanagi: The Father of Japanese Television], NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), 2002, retrieved 2009-05-23. This was the first working example of a fully electronic television receiver.{{cite web|url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:Development_of_Electronic_Television,_1924-1941|title=Milestones:Development of Electronic Television, 1924-1941|access-date=11 December 2015}} His research toward creating a production model was halted by the US after Japan lost World War II.

The first commercially made electronic televisions with CRTs were manufactured by Telefunken in Germany in 1934,[http://www.earlytelevision.org/telefunken.html Telefunken], Early Electronic TV Gallery, Early Television Foundation.[http://www.tvhistory.tv/1934-35-Telefunken-FEIII.JPG 1934–35 Telefunken], Television History: The First 75 Years. followed by other makers in France (1936),[http://www.tvhistory.tv/1936%20French%20TV.htm 1936 French Television], Television History: The First 75 Years. Britain (1936),[http://www.tvhistory.tv/1936-Baird-T5.JPG 1936 Baird T5], Television History: The First 75 Years. and US (1938).[http://www.earlytelevision.org/communicating_systems.html Communicating Systems, Inc.], Early Electronic TV Gallery, Early Television Foundation.[http://www.tvhistory.tv/1939%20Du%20Mont%20Brochure.htm America's First Electronic Television Set], Television History: The First 75 Years. The cheapest model with a {{convert|12|in|cm|adj=on}} screen was $445 ({{Inflation|US|445|1938|fmt=eq}}).[http://www.tvhistory.tv/tv-prices.htm American TV Prices], Television History: The First 75 Years. An estimated 19,000 electronic televisions were manufactured in Britain, and about 1,600 in Germany, before World War II. About 7,000–8,000 electronic sets were made in the U.S.[http://www.tvhistory.tv/Annual_TV_Sales_39-59.JPG Annual Television Sales in USA], Television History: The First 75 Years. before the War Production Board halted manufacture in April 1942, production resuming in August 1945. Television usage in the western world skyrocketed after World War II with the lifting of the manufacturing freeze, war-related technological advances, the drop in television prices caused by mass production, increased leisure time, and additional disposable income. While only 0.5% of U.S. households had a television in 1946, 55.7% had one in 1954, and 90% by 1962.[http://www.tvhistory.tv/Annual_TV_Households_50-78.JPG Number of TV Households in America], Television History: The First 75 Years. In Britain, there were 15,000 television households in 1947, 1.4 million in 1952, and 15.1 million by 1968.{{Cite book|last1=Robbins|first1=Paul|title=Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction|last2=Hintz|last3=Moore|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2013|isbn=978-1118451557|pages=303}}

Early electronic television sets were large and bulky, with analog circuits made of vacuum tubes. As an example, the RCA CT-100 color TV set used 36 vacuum tubes.{{Cite web|url=http://www.earlytelevision.org/Deksnis/home_page.html|title=Home Page|website=earlytelevision.org}} Following the invention of the first working transistor at Bell Labs, Sony founder Masaru Ibuka predicted in 1952 that the transition to electronic circuits made of transistors would lead to smaller and more portable television sets.{{cite book |last1=Childs |first1=William R. |last2=Martin |first2=Scott B. |last3=Stitt-Gohdes |first3=Wanda |title=Business and Industry: Savings and investment options to telecommuting |date=2004 |publisher=Marshall Cavendish |isbn=9780761474395 |page=1217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCwYAAAAIAAJ |quote=In 1952 Ibuka toured AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the United States and saw the newly invented transistor. He realized that replacing the large, clumsy vacuum tube with the transistor would make possible smaller, more portable radios and TVs.}} The first fully transistorized, portable solid-state television set was the {{convert|8|in|cm|adj=on}} Sony TV8-301, developed in 1959 and released in 1960.{{cite journal |title=Sony Founder Masaru Ibuka's New Year's Dream Comes True: The Launch of Sony's TV Business |journal=Time Capsule |date=17 November 2009 |volume=21 |publisher=Sony |url=https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/capsule/21/index.html |access-date=1 October 2019}}{{cite book |last1=Sparke |first1=Penny |title=Japanese Design |date=2009 |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |isbn=9780870707391 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaIQf2gV8pEC&pg=PA18}} By the 1970s, television manufacturers utilized this push for miniaturization to create small, console-styled sets which their salesmen could easily transport, pushing demand for television sets out into rural areas. However, the first fully transistorized color TV set, the HMV Colourmaster Model 2700, was released in 1967 by the British Radio Corporation.Electrons in Shadow-mask Colour Tubes. Thorn-AEI Radio Valves and Tubes Limited. 1967. This began the transformation of television viewership from a communal viewing experience to a solitary viewing experience.{{cite book |last1=Lucie-Smith |first1=Edward |title=A History of Industrial Design |date=1983 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=9780714822815 |page=208 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fMsfAQAAIAAJ |quote=The first all-transistor television set was introduced by Sony in 1959 (fig. 386), only four years after their all-transistor radio, and started the transformation of television from something used for communal viewing, as the radio in the 30s had been a focus for communal listening, into an object of solitary contemplation.}} By 1960, Sony had sold over 4{{nbsp}}million portable television sets worldwide.{{cite book |last1=Chang |first1=Yoon Seok |last2=Makatsoris |first2=Harris C. |last3=Richards |first3=Howard D. |title=Evolution of Supply Chain Management: Symbiosis of Adaptive Value Networks and ICT |date=2007 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=9780306486968 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Y3wBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 |language=en}}

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, color television had come into wide use. In Britain, BBC1, BBC2 and ITV were regularly broadcasting in colour by 1969.{{Cite news|date=2008-03-03|title=1966: BBC tunes in to colour|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/3/newsid_2514000/2514719.stm#:~:text=By%20mid%201968,%20nearly%20every,million%20by%20the%20early%2070s.|access-date=2020-11-19}}

Late model CRT TVs used highly integrated electronics such as a Jungle chip which performs the functions of many transistors.{{cite book |title=Lenk's Television Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=et_iAAAAMAAJ |first=John |last=Lenk |publisher=McGraw-Hill |date=1995 |page=76|isbn = 9780070375178}}{{cite book |title=Newnes TV and Video Engineer's Pocket Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSP06tjOO0QC |first=Eugene |last=Trundle |publisher=Elsevier |date=1999 |page=202|isbn = 9780080497495}}

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Paul K. Weimer at RCA developed the thin-film transistor (TFT) in 1962,{{cite journal |last1=Weimer |first1=Paul K. |author1-link=Paul K. Weimer |title=The TFT A New Thin-Film Transistor |journal=Proceedings of the IRE |date=June 1962 |volume=50 |issue=6 |pages=1462–1469 |doi=10.1109/JRPROC.1962.288190 |s2cid=51650159 |issn=0096-8390}} later the idea of a TFT-based liquid-crystal display (LCD) was conceived by Bernard Lechner of RCA Laboratories in 1968.{{cite journal |last1=Kawamoto |first1=H. |title=The Inventors of TFT Active-Matrix LCD Receive the 2011 IEEE Nishizawa Medal |journal=Journal of Display Technology |date=2012 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=3–4 |doi=10.1109/JDT.2011.2177740 |bibcode=2012JDisT...8....3K |issn=1551-319X}} Lechner, F. J. Marlowe, E. O. Nester and J. Tults demonstrated the concept in 1968 with a dynamic scattering LCD that used standard discrete MOSFETs.{{cite book |last1=Castellano |first1=Joseph A. |title=Liquid Gold: The Story of Liquid Crystal Displays and the Creation of an Industry |date=2005 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=9789812389565 |pages=41–2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vrtpDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA41}}

In 1973, T. Peter Brody, J. A. Asars and G. D. Dixon at Westinghouse Research Laboratories demonstrated the first thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD).{{cite journal |last1=Kuo |first1=Yue |title=Thin Film Transistor Technology—Past, Present, and Future |journal=The Electrochemical Society Interface |date=1 January 2013 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=55–61 |doi=10.1149/2.F06131if |bibcode=2013ECSIn..22a..55K |url=https://www.electrochem.org/dl/interface/spr/spr13/spr13_p055_061.pdf |issn=1064-8208|doi-access=free |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210230344/https://www.electrochem.org/dl/interface/spr/spr13/spr13_p055_061.pdf |archive-date=10 February 2014 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Brody |first1=T. Peter |author1-link=T. Peter Brody |last2=Asars |first2=J. A. |last3=Dixon |first3=G. D. |title=A 6 × 6 inch 20 lines-per-inch liquid-crystal display panel |journal=IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices |date=November 1973 |volume=20 |issue=11 |pages=995–1001 |doi=10.1109/T-ED.1973.17780 |bibcode=1973ITED...20..995B |issn=0018-9383}} Brody and Fang-Chen Luo demonstrated the first flat active-matrix liquid-crystal display (AM LCD) in 1974.

By 1982, pocket LCD TVs based on AM LCD technology were developed in Japan.{{cite journal |last1=Morozumi |first1=Shinji |last2=Oguchi |first2=Kouichi |title=Current Status of LCD-TV Development in Japan |journal=Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals |date=12 October 1982 |volume=94 |issue=1–2 |pages=43–59 |doi=10.1080/00268948308084246 |issn=0026-8941}} The {{convert|2.1|in|cm|adj=on}} Epson ET-10{{cite book |last1=Souk |first1=Jun |last2=Morozumi |first2=Shinji |last3=Luo |first3=Fang-Chen |last4=Bita |first4=Ion |title=Flat-Panel Display Manufacturing |date=2018 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9781119161356 |pages=2–3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDVmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2}} (Epson Elf) was the first color LCD pocket TV, released in 1984.{{cite web |title=ET-10 |url=https://global.epson.com/company/corporate_history/milestone_products/16_et10.html |website=Epson |access-date=29 July 2019}} In 1988, a Sharp research team led by engineer T. Nagayasu demonstrated a {{convert|14|in|cm|adj=on}} full-color LCD display,{{cite book |last1=Nagayasu |first1=T. |last2=Oketani |first2=T. |last3=Hirobe |first3=T. |last4=Kato |first4=H. |last5=Mizushima |first5=S. |last6=Take |first6=H. |last7=Yano |first7=K. |last8=Hijikigawa |first8=M. |last9=Washizuka |first9=I. |title=Conference Record of the 1988 International Display Research Conference |chapter=A 14-in.-diagonal full-color a-Si TFT LCD |date=October 1988 |pages=56–58 |doi=10.1109/DISPL.1988.11274|s2cid=20817375 }} which convinced the electronics industry that LCD would eventually replace the CRT as the standard television display technology. The first wall-mountable TV was introduced by Sharp Corporation in 1992.{{cite book | title=Popular Science | date=January 1992 | publisher=Bonnier Corporation | issn=0161-7370 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA87| page=87}}

During the first decade of the 21st century, CRT "picture tube" display technology was almost entirely supplanted worldwide by flat-panel displays: first plasma displays around 1997, then LCDs. By the early 2010s, LCD TVs, which increasingly used LED-backlit LCDs, accounted for the overwhelming majority of television sets being manufactured.

In 2014, Curved OLED TVs were released to the market, which were intended to offer improved image quality but this effect was only visible at a certain position away from the TV.{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalavmagazine.com/en/2014/09/08/lg-presenta-en-ifa-2014-sus-televisores-curvos-oled-con-resolucion-4k/|title=LG presents at IFA 2014 its curved OLED TVs with 4K resolution|date=8 September 2014|website=Digital AV Magazine}}{{Cite web|url=https://newatlas.com/lg-flexible-oled-tv/30332/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body|title=LG unveils world's first flexible OLED TV|date=7 January 2014|website=New Atlas}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/do-real-tvs-have-real-curves/|title=Do real TVs have real curves?|website=CNET}}

Rollable OLED TVs were introduced in 2020, which allow the display panel of the TV to be hidden.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158263/lg-rollable-oled-r1-r-tv-discontinued|title=LG's $100,000 rollable OLED TV is canceled|first=Umar|last=Shakir|date=16 May 2024|website=The Verge}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gsmarena.com/lg_signature_oled_r_the_65_rollable_tv_is_now_available_for_87000-news-45878.php|title=65" rollable TV LG Signature OLED R is now available for $87,000|website=GSMArena.com}}

2023 saw the release of wireless TVs which connect to other devices solely through a transmitter box with an antenna that transmits information wirelessly to the TV.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/3/23818379/lg-signature-oled-m-tv-wireless-south-korea-launch|title=LG's 'wireless' and wildly expensive 97-inch OLED TV sees first global release|first=Jon|last=Porter|date=3 August 2023|website=The Verge}} Demos of transparent TVs have also been made.{{Cite web|url=https://www.techradar.com/televisions/lgs-world-first-wireless-transparent-oled-tv-takes-the-game-right-back-to-samsung-at-ces|title=LG's world-first wireless transparent OLED TV takes the game right back to Samsung|author1=James Davidson|date=9 January 2024|website=TechRadar}} There are TVs that are offered to users for free, but are paid for by showing ads to users and collecting user data.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/15/23721674/telly-free-tv-streaming-ilya-pozin-ads|title=This free TV comes with two screens|first=Emma|last=Roth|date=15 May 2023|website=The Verge}}

Cambridge's Clive Sinclair created a mini TV in 1967 that could be held in the palm of a hand and was the world's smallest television at the time, though it never took off commercially because the design was complex.https://www.guenthoer.de/mtv1/microvision1967.jpg{{Cite web|last=Elliott|first=Chris|date=2017-01-10|title=When Cambridge invented the world's smallest telly|url=http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history/cambridge-invented-worlds-smallest-telly-12427721|access-date=2020-10-23|website=CambridgeshireLive|language=en}} In 2019, Samsung launched the largest television to date at {{convert|292|in|cm ft|0}}.{{Cite web|last=Katzmaier|first=David|title=Samsung reveals a 292-inch TV, the largest we've seen at CES|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-tv-the-wall-biggest-screen-weve-ever-seen/|access-date=2020-10-23|publisher=CNET|language=en}} The average size of TVs has grown over time.{{Cite web|url=https://flowingdata.com/2009/09/23/tv-size-over-the-past-8-years/|title=TV Size Over the Past 8 Years|first=Nathan|last=Yau|date=23 September 2009}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/961283/united-states-average-tv-screen-size/#:~:text=1997%20to%202022.-,The%20average%20size%20of%20LCD%20TV%20screens%20in%20the%20United,eclipse%2050%20inches%20by%202021.|title = LCD TV: Average screen size U.S. 1997-2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/remember-when-tvs-weighed-200-pounds-a-look-back-at-tv-trends-over-the-years/|title=Remember when TVs weighed 200 pounds? A look back at TV trends over the years|first=David|last=Katzmaier|publisher=CNET}}

In 2024, the sales of large-screen televisions significantly increased. Between January and September, approximately 38 thousand televisions with a screen size of {{convert|97|in|cm}} or larger were sold globally. This surge in popularity can be attributed to several factors, including technological advancements and decreasing prices.{{cite web | last=D'Innocenzio | first=Anne | title=TV screens are getting bigger as technology improves and prices fall | website=AP News | date=2024-11-03 | url=https://apnews.com/article/big-tv-screens-technology-holidays-43ca60a7306284c0f2f11eba9bc1d09f | access-date=2024-11-04}}

The availability of larger screen sizes at more affordable prices has driven consumer demand. For example, Samsung, a leading electronics manufacturer, introduced its first {{convert|98|in|cm|adj=on}} television in 2019 with a price tag of $99,000. In 2024, the company will offer four {{convert|98|in|cm|adj=on}} models starting at $4,000. This trend is reflected in the overall market, with the average price of a television exceeding {{convert|97|in|cm}}, declining from $6,662 in 2023 to $3,113 in 2024. As technology advances, even larger screen sizes, such as {{convert|110|and|115|in|cm}}, are becoming increasingly accessible to consumers.

{{Main article|Display device}}

Television sets may employ one of several available display technologies. As of mid-2019, LCDs overwhelmingly predominate in new merchandise, but OLED displays are claiming an increasing market share as they become more affordable and DLP technology continues to offer some advantages in projection systems. The production of plasma and CRT displays has been completely discontinued.{{Cite web|url = http://tvbaratas.net/|title = spanish info about tv|date = 2016|website = TVbaratas}}

There are four primary competing TV technologies:

• CRT
• LCD (multiple variations of LCD screens are called QLED, quantum dot, LED, LCD TN, LCD IPS, LCD PLS, LCD VA, etc.)
• OLED
• Plasma

{{Main article|Cathode-ray tube}}

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The cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing a so-called electron gun (or three for a color television) and a fluorescent screen where the television image is displayed.{{cite web|url=http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/CathodeRayTube.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709164537/http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/CathodeRayTube.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 July 2012 |title=History of the Cathode Ray Tube |access-date=4 October 2009 |work=About.com }} The electron gun accelerates electrons in a beam which is deflected in both the vertical and horizontal directions using varying electric or (usually, in television sets) magnetic fields, in order to scan a raster image onto the fluorescent screen. The CRT requires an evacuated glass envelope, which is rather deep (well over half of the screen size), fairly heavy, and breakable. As a matter of radiation safety, both the face (panel) and back (funnel) were made of thick lead glass in order to reduce human exposure to harmful ionizing radiation (in the form of x-rays) produced when electrons accelerated using a high voltage ({{val|10|-|30|ul=kV}}) strike the screen. By the early 1970s, most color TVs replaced leaded glass in the face panel with vitrified strontium oxide glass,{{cite web|url = http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/strontium/myb1-2007-stron.pdf|title = Mineral Yearbook 2007:Strontium|first1 = Joyce A.|last1 = Ober|first2 = Désirée E.|last2 = Polyak|publisher = United States Geological Survey|access-date = 2009-09-14|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080920070543/http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/strontium/myb1-2007-stron.pdf|archive-date = 2008-09-20|url-status = dead}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6c7AQAAMAAJ&q=faceplate+glass+production+%2C+strontium%27s+major+end+use+since+the+early+1970s&pg=RA6-SA74-PA1|title=Minerals Yearbook|date=8 May 2011|publisher=Bureau of Mines|isbn=9781411332270|via=Google Books}} which also blocked x-ray emissions but allowed better color visibility. This also eliminated the need for cadmium phosphors{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} in earlier color televisions. Leaded glass, which is less expensive, continued to be used in the funnel glass, which is not visible to the consumer.

In television sets (and most computer monitors that use CRTs), the entire screen area is scanned repetitively (completing a full frame 25 or 30 times a second) in a fixed pattern called a raster. The image information is received in real time from a video signal which controls the electric current supplying the electron gun, or in color televisions each of the three electron guns whose beams land on phosphors of the three primary colors (red, green, and blue).{{cite web|title=How Computer Monitors Work|date=16 June 2000 |url=http://computer.howstuffworks.com/monitor7.htm |access-date=4 October 2009 }} Except in the very early days of television, magnetic deflection has been used to scan the image onto the face of the CRT; this involves a varying current applied to both the vertical and horizontal deflection coils placed around the neck of the tube just beyond the electron gun(s).

{{Main article|Digital light processing}}

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Digital light processing (DLP) is a type of video projector technology that uses a digital micromirror device. Some DLPs have a TV tuner, which makes them a type of TV display. It was originally developed in 1987 by Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments. While the DLP imaging device was invented by Texas Instruments, the first DLP based projector was introduced by Digital Projection Ltd in 1997. Digital Projection and Texas Instruments were both awarded Emmy Awards in 1998 for the DLP projector technology. DLP is used in a variety of display applications from traditional static displays to interactive displays and also non-traditional embedded applications including medical, security, and industrial uses.

DLP technology is used in DLP front projectors (standalone projection units for classrooms and business primarily), DLP rear projection television sets, and digital signs. It is also used in about 85% of digital cinema projection, and in additive manufacturing as a power source in some SLA 3D printers to cure resins into solid 3D objects.{{cite web|title=How Digital Light Processing Works|url=https://thre3d.com/how-it-works/light-photopolymerization/digital-light-processing-dlp|publisher=THRE3D.com|access-date=3 February 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140203075406/https://thre3d.com/how-it-works/light-photopolymerization/digital-light-processing-dlp|archive-date=3 February 2014}}

Rear-projection televisions (RPTVs) became very popular in the early days of television, when the ability to practically produce tubes with a large display size did not exist. In 1936, for a tube capable of being mounted horizontally in the television cabinet, {{convert|9|in|cm|spell=in}} would have been regarded as the largest convenient size that could be made owing to its required length, due to the low deflection angles of CRTs produced in the era, which meant that CRTs with large front sizes would have also needed to be very deep,{{Cite web|author=Thorn-AEI Radio Valves and Tubes Limited|url=http://www.r-type.org/articles/art-004e.htm|title=Electrons in Picture Tubes|type=booklet|location=United Kingdom|date=1964}} which caused such CRTs to be installed at an angle to reduce the cabinet depth of the TV set. {{convert|12|in|cm|spell=In}} tubes and TV sets were available, but the tubes were so long (deep) that they were mounted vertically and viewed via a mirror in the top of the TV set cabinet which was usually mounted under a hinged lid, reducing considerably the depth of the set but making it taller.One such example of a set, the Murphy model A42V (https://www.bvws.org.uk/events/photos/2011-09-murphy-day/, https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/murphy_a42v.html, https://www.earlytelevision.org/murphy.html) produced in 1936 used a twelve inch tube type 12H that was a little in excess of 30 inches long. These mirror lid televisions were large pieces of furniture.

As a solution, Philips introduced a television set in 1937 that relied on back projecting an image from a {{convert|4+1/2|in|cm|adj=on}} tube onto a {{convert|25|in|cm|adj=on}} screen. This required the tube to be driven very hard (at unusually high voltages and currents, see {{slink|Cathode-ray tube|Projection CRTs}}) to produce an extremely bright image on its fluorescent screen. Further, Philips decided to use a green phosphor on the tube face as it was brighter than the white phosphors of the day.{{cite web|url=https://frank.pocnet.net/sheets/153/m/MS11-1.pdf|title=Mullard Television Projection Tube|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725202129/https://frank.pocnet.net/sheets/153/m/MS11-1.pdf|archive-date=25 July 2017|url-status=live}} In fact these early tubes were not up to the job and by November of that year Philips decided that it was cheaper to buy the sets back than to provide replacement tubes under warranty every couple of weeks or so.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/philips/proj1937/proj1937.htm|title=Philips|website=thevalvepage.com}} Substantial improvements were very quickly made to these small tubes and a more satisfactory tube design was available the following year helped by Philips's decision to use a smaller screen size of {{convert|23|in|cm|adj=on}}.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/philips/tel61/philips.htm|title=Philips|website=thevalvepage.com}} In 1950 a more efficient {{convert|2+1/2|in|cm|adj=on}} tube with vastly improved technology and more efficient white phosphor, along with smaller and less demanding screen sizes, was able to provide an acceptable image, though the life of the tubes was still shorter than contemporary direct view tubes.{{Cite web|url=http://www.r-type.org/articles/art-113.htm|title=The Optics of Projection Television|website=r-type.org}} As CRT technology improved during the 1950s, producing larger and larger screen sizes and later on, (more or less) rectangular tubes, the rear projection system was obsolete before the end of the decade.

However, in the early to mid 2000s RPTV systems made a comeback as a cheaper alternative to contemporary LCD and Plasma TVs. They were larger and lighter than contemporary CRT TVs and had a flat screen just like LCD and Plasma, but unlike LCD and Plasma, RPTVs were often dimmer, had lower contrast ratios and viewing angles, image quality was affected by room lighting and suffered when compared with direct view CRTs,{{Cite web|url=https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/projection-tv.htm|title=How Projection Television Works|date=19 December 2000|website=HowStuffWorks}} and were still bulky like CRTs. These TVs worked by having a DLP, LCoS or LCD projector at the bottom of the unit, and using a mirror to project the image onto a screen. The screen may be a Fresnel lens to increase brightness at the cost of viewing angles. Some early units used CRT projectors and were heavy, weighing up to 500 pounds.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z4gv73/americas-television-graveyards|title=America's Television Graveyards – VICE|website=vice.com|date=16 February 2017 }} Most RPTVs used Ultra-high-performance lamps as their light source, which required periodic replacement partly because they dimmed with use but mainly because the operating bulb glass became weaker with ageing to the point where the bulb could eventually shatter often damaging the projection system. Those that used CRTs and lasers did not require replacement.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/rear-projection-vs-lcd-vs-plasma/|title=Rear projection vs. LCD vs. plasma|first=Geoffrey|last=Morrison|publisher=CNET}}

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A plasma display panel (PDP) is a type of flat-panel display common to large TV displays {{convert|30|in|cm}} or larger. They are called "plasma" displays because the technology utilizes small cells containing electrically charged ionized gases, or what are in essence chambers more commonly known as fluorescent lamps. Around 2014, television manufacturers were largely phasing out plasma TVs, because a plasma TV became higher cost and more difficult to make in 4k compared to LED or LCD.{{Cite web|last=Katzmaier|first=David|title=Why Samsung's F8500 is the last great plasma TV|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/why-samsungs-f8500-is-the-last-great-plasma-tv/|access-date=2021-05-21|publisher=CNET|language=en}}

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In 1997, Philips introduced at CES and CeBIT the first large ({{convert|42|in|cm|adj=on|disp=or}}) commercially available flat-panel TV, using Fujitsu plasma displays.{{cite news | url=https://www.lesechos.fr/1997/04/philips-et-thomson-en-position-dattente-811858 | title=Philips et Thomson en position d'attente | work=Les Echos | date=9 April 1997 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.rtf1.de/news.php?id=18644 | title=20 Jahre Flachbildfernseher - OLED und 4K momentan Spitze der Entwicklung | RTF.1 }}{{cite web | url=https://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/1996/Nov/28-e.html | title=Fujitsu is World's First to Mass Produce 42-inch Color Plasma Display Panels }}

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File:LCD generic tv.jpgLiquid-crystal-display televisions (LCD TV) are television sets that use liquid-crystal displays to produce images. LCD televisions are much thinner and lighter than CRTs of similar display size and are available in much larger sizes (e.g., {{convert|90|in|cm|adj=on|disp=or}} diagonal). When manufacturing costs fell, this combination of features made LCDs practical for television receivers.

In 2007, LCD televisions surpassed sales of CRT-based televisions globally for the first time,{{Cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/displaysearch_crt_lcd_global_q4/|title=Global LCD TV sales overtake CRT|last=Sherwood|first=James|date=22 February 2008|work=The Register|access-date=3 July 2018|language=en}} and their sales figures relative to other technologies accelerated. LCD TVs quickly displaced the only major competitors in the large-screen market, the plasma display panel and rear-projection television. In the mid-2010s LCDs became, by far, the most widely produced and sold television display type.

LCDs also have disadvantages. Other technologies address these weaknesses, including OLEDs, FED and SED. LCDs can have quantum dots and mini-LED backlights to enhance image quality.

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An OLED (organic light-emitting diode) is a light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compound which emits light in response to an electric current. This layer of organic semiconductor is situated between two electrodes. Generally, at least one of these electrodes is transparent. OLEDs are used to create digital displays in devices such as television screens. It is also used for computer monitors, portable systems such as mobile phones, handheld game consoles and PDAs.

There are two main families of OLED: those based on small molecules and those employing polymers. Adding mobile ions to an OLED creates a light-emitting electrochemical cell or LEC, which has a slightly different mode of operation. OLED displays can use either passive-matrix (PMOLED) or active-matrix addressing schemes. Active-matrix OLEDs (AMOLED) require a thin-film transistor backplane to switch each individual pixel on or off, but allow for higher resolution and larger display sizes.

An OLED display works without a backlight. Thus, it can display deep black levels and can be thinner and lighter than a liquid crystal display (LCD). In low ambient light conditions such as a dark room, an OLED screen can achieve a higher contrast ratio than an LCD, whether the LCD uses cold cathode fluorescent lamps or LED backlight.

While most televisions are designed for consumers in the household, there are several markets that demand variations including hospitality, healthcare, and other commercial settings.

Televisions made for the hospitality industry are part of an establishment's internal television system designed to be used by its guests. Therefore, settings menus are hidden and locked by a password. Other common software features include volume limiting, customizable power-on splash image, and channel hiding. These TVs are typically controlled by a set-back box using one of the data ports on the rear of the TV. The set back box may offer channel lists, pay per view, video on demand, and casting from a smart phone or tablet.{{Cite web |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/how-to/a6744/why-are-hotel-tvs-so-bad/ |title = Why Are Hotel TVs So Bad? |publisher=Popular Mechanics |date=18 Sep 2017 |first=Seth |last=Porges |access-date=7 September 2022}}{{Cite web |title=More hotels will let you watch your own Netflix {{!}} Engadget |author=Mariella Moon |work=Engadget |date=22 June 2017 |access-date=7 September 2022 |url= https://www.engadget.com/2017-06-22-hotels-staycast-chromecast-att-directv.html}}

Hospitality spaces are insecure with respect to content piracy, so many content providers require the use of Digital rights management.{{Cite web |title=What Is The Difference Between A Hospitality TV And A Normal TV? |work=Droidrant |date=23 March 2022 |access-date=7 September 2022 |url= https://droidrant.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-hospitality-tv-and-a-normal-tv/}} Hospitality TVs decrypt the industry standard Pro:Idiom when no set back box is used. While H.264 is not part of the ATSC 1.0 standard in North America, TV content in hospitality can include H.264 encoded video, so hospitality TVs include H.264 decoding. Managing dozens or hundreds of TVs can be time consuming, so hospitality TVs can be cloned by storing settings on a USB drive and restoring those settings quickly. Additionally, server-based and cloud-based management systems can monitor and configure an entire fleet of TVs.

Healthcare televisions include the provisions of hospitality TVs with additional features for usability and safety. They are designed for use in a healthcare setting in which the user may have limited mobility and audio/visual impairment. A key feature is the pillow speaker connection. Pillow speakers combine nurse call functions, TV remote control and a speaker for audio. In multiple occupancy rooms where several TVs are used in close proximity, the televisions can be programmed to respond to a remote control with unique codes so that each remote only controls one TV. Smaller TVs, also called bedside infotainment systems, have a full function keypad below the screen. This allows direct interaction without the use of a pillow speaker or remote.{{Cite web |title=Supporting Bedside Technologies for Patient Satisfaction |author= |work=HealthTech Magazine |date=27 January 2017 |access-date=7 September 2022 |url= https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2017/01/supporting-bedside-technologies-patient-satisfaction}} These TVs typically have antimicrobial surfaces and can withstand daily cleaning using disinfectants. In the US, the UL safety standard for televisions, UL 62368-1, contains a special section (annex DVB) which outlines additional safety requirements for televisions used in healthcare.

Outdoor television sets are designed for outdoor use and are usually found in the outdoor sections of bars, sports field, or other community facilities. Most outdoor televisions use high-definition television technology. Their body is more robust. The screens are designed to remain clearly visible even in sunny outdoor lighting. The screens also have anti-reflective coatings to prevent glare. They are weather-resistant and often also have anti-theft brackets. Outdoor TV models can also be connected with BD players and PVRs for greater functionality.{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2014/08/19/sunbrite-outdoor-tv-review-an-expensive-luxury/14067719/|title=SunBrite outdoor TV: An expensive luxury|first=Edward C.|last=Baig|website=USA Today}}

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In the United States, the average consumer replaces their television every 6.9 years, but research suggests that due to advanced software and apps, the replacement cycle may be shortening.{{cite news |last=Pierce |first=David |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-smart-tv-is-only-going-to-get-dumber-1543154401 |title=Your Smart TV Is Only Going to Get Dumber |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=2018-11-25 |access-date=2018-11-27 }}

Due to recent changes in electronic waste legislation, economical and environmentally friendly television disposal has been made increasingly more available in the form of television recycling. Challenges with recycling television sets include proper HAZMAT disposal, landfill pollution, and illegal international trade.[https://reparatii-televizoare.com/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411171200/https://reparatii-televizoare.com/|date=11 April 2020}}, www.Bordercenter.org

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Global 2016 years statistics for LCD TV.[http://www.statista.com/statistics/267095/global-market-share-of-lcd-tv-manufacturers/ Global market share held by LCD TV manufacturers from 2008 to 2017].

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