By: Odin Contreras

 A series of photos can be viewed by stroboscopic disc.

 George Eastman invents flexible photographic film.

 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.

 Edison attempts to record picture photos on a wax cylinder.

 Dickson shoots many 15 second photos using Edison's kineograph motion picture camera.

 The first public demonstration of motion pictures displayed in France.

 Ferdinand Braun developed Cathode Ray Tube.

 Cay Ray Tube is used to produce television images.

 Patent for the iconoscope, the forerunner of the picture tube.

 Talking films started with Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer".

 The RCA conducts black and white broadcasting experiments.

 The first television broadcast made available in London.

 Initial proposal for color TV broadcast made by George Valensi.

 There were fewer than 7,000 working TV sets in the country and only nine stations on the air; three in New York, two each in Chicago and Los Angeles, and one each in Philadelphia and Schenectady, N.Y.

 The Blue Network officially becomes the ABC Network 1941 FCC ruling required RCA to divest itself of one of its two networks; NBC Blue was sold in 1943 to Edward Noble for $8 million, and becomes ABC in 1945.

 The Ampex Corporation used magnetic tape technology pioneered by German scientists during World War II to make the first video tape recorder, the Ampex VRX It was introduced in 1956.

 The first television camera employed early versions of the cathode ray tube invented in The RCA made the first handheld mobile video camera in 1972 the TK-44.

The first commercially available video cassette recorder was the Sony Betamax, introduced in 1975.

 Earliest commercially available professional digital video recorders were introduced by Sony using the D-1 format, which recorded uncompressed standard definition video using a component video.

 The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCR-VX1000, introduced in The camera featured a 3-CCD imaging device for unprecedented video quality in a home video camera.