DAVID SARNOFF VS PHILO FARNSWORTH ON BROADWAY AARON SORKIN

[1776Matthew]

Wow isn't that a coincidence. Jew Sarnoff what the lucky man who was there to cover the sinking of the Titanic. Just like that lucky Abraham Zapruder who captured the famous footage of the Kennedy assassination. Just like those 5 dancing Israelis who were "sent to document the event" on 9/11/01. These guys are always in the right place at the right time, aren't they?

[celebration81]

Farnsoworth didn't invent the electronic television. It was invented and patented by Hungarian Kálmán Tihanyi in 1926. The later Farnsworth system proved to a blind alley, Factories have never produced the Farnsworth system. Tihanyi's earlier invention of the predecessor of all modern electronic system. UNESCO (United Nations) the patent offices and Nobel Comitee created the award: MEMORY OF WORLD. They considered Tihanyi as the inventor.

[jayronathon]

STEREOSCOPIC APPARATUS HAVING LIQUID CRYSTAL FILTER VIEWER was invented by Sunsei Kratomi in 1973

Who fuckin cares Wh invented what different type of image scanning/ decoding device. Each patent owner has built a similar device that shows an image, Baird did it, Zworykin did it, Tihanyi did it, they just did it in different ways you fuckin piece of knitpicking shit. Go fuck yourself for thinking you know something.

[celebration81]

There were not similar devices. You are not a professional (engineer) that's why you said stupidity. Charge storage mosaic sensor is still the basic of all image-capture device, like in electron-tubes CCD-s and CMOS systems. Tihanyi also invented the plasma tv in 1936

[jayronathon]

Like I said, you are a stupid piece of knitpicking shit. RCA and David Sarnoff paid Farnsworth royalities for using similar apparatus' in their sets, Zworykin basically stole his plans. Farnsworth eventually won the patent though and is hailed as the inventor of electronic television b/c of his Cold Cathode Ray tubes, which HE INVENTED! What exactly did this hungarian contribute to the television? What piece of technology did he invent? Farnsworth invented a microscope, Zworykin developed radar!

[celebration81]

Farnswoth system wasn't practicable, therefore it was not used from the 1940's. It didn't used The Tihanyi's system: "charge storage principle and semi-conductor-mosaic technology. Charge storage technology was invented by Kálmán Tihanyi, electron-tubes and CCD CMOS technology stil based on Tihanyi's charge storage basic ideas. Farnsworth "image dissector coundn't become wide-spread, because of its dark bad quality pictures.

[jayronathon]

RCA purchased his patents, which were the basis of the iconoscope, developed later by Zworykin and his associates at RCA. This device was manufactured from 1930 on for transmitting television programs. So, your hungarian got paid just like everyone else, but he was no more important than anyone else. Most of his patents were in other countries anyway. No ONE person can be hailed as the inventor of electronic television. Your hungarian is just another contributor.

[celebration81]

Again, iconoscope and Farnsworth's image dissector were competitor camera tubes, which based on different technology. Iconoscope based on "charge storage idea" and semi-cuductor mosaic plate. It doeasn't matter that rca bought patents, because RCA bought more than 20 TV patents from deifferent inventors.

[celebration81]

You are not an electric engineer, you are a layman, therefore you write laughable stupidities.

[celebration81]

Sorry , he was not the inventor of electronic television. Hungarian Kálmán Tihanyi invented the electronic tv in 1926. UNESCO WORLD HERRITAGE Check it!

[PhiloPharnsworth]

Farnsworth was not Sarnoff's only victim. Major Edwin Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio, was driven to suicide by Sarnoff's brutal business practices. The irony is that Armstrong's magnificent tower in Alpine, NJ "saved" the on-air signal of Sarnoff's flagship TV station, WNBC, after destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11...causing Sarnoff's mighty network to rely on Armstrong's pioneering work, after all. Please note that my screen name is in tribute to Mr. Farnsworth's memory.

[1walkingtree]

yes, yes, yes, and religen is a large part of tv

[1walkingtree]

yes, yes, yes,???? has there ever been an invention that has propagated so much violence? insighted more greed and convoluted any attempt of world peace because we all know peace makes poor tv!

[TVNETWORKS]

HOW ABOUT RELIGEN

[scootertiff]

Saw the show last sat and it was excellent. Great writing, great cast, Hank and Jimmi were both brilliant, I can't wait to see how it's received!

[fromthesidelines]

Sarnoff was a "greedy bastard" who wanted to take credit [and profit] for EVERYTHING RCA created and/or "perfected"- even it meant squashing the REAL inventors who perfected TV and FM radio {Farnsworth and Edwin Armstrong, respectively}. "The General's" arrogance in not dealing directly with NBC Radio's top stars of the late '40s cost him their exclusivity with the network- Bill Paley of CBS lured no less than ten of them to his network in 1948-'49.

[cubantoro]

Farnsworth may have been the inventor... but had it not been for Sarnoff and his RCA engineers, spending all that money, on something everyone else thought was just a radio with picture, we wouldn't have modern day TV. Sarnoff also spent millions to make color TV a reality. So... not only do we have to thank the inventor... but also establish the fact that Sarnoff, the man behind RCA, put the assets of that once great co. behind the idea of making Television a reality.

[tomatillo12]

That is about as applicable as Reefer Madness was. Are you trying to imply Farnsworth was not the inventor of television?

[TVNETWORKS]

NOT A CHANCE...but this NBC promo did imply he never was around.

[tomatillo12]

Thanks for the clarification.

[TVNETWORKS]

You'll notice all those who used Farnsworth invention never gave him credit for anything. As in the Godfather it was "business not personal". To give credit means giving money and GREED like history shows takes over. Let's hope Sorkin can tell the story and get the public to give a #^%&$%.