Television's future

Television is a screen used by man to receive live or recorded transmission of images, still or moving, for viewing as and when they occur at the point of origin. Even though war had slowed down the expansion of television worldwide, the use of integrated-circuits became the first technical item to upgrade the quality of television. The photoelectric cell was developed in 1888 soon after G.R. Carey revealed his study that an instrument that could imitate the action of the human eye a few years before it.

After Sir William Crookes produced the cathode rays tube and Thomas Edison, the Edison Effect, Electronic Science leap forward in 1906.

The basic transmission taking action are only 2 waves. The Light Waves and the Sound Waves. The Light Waves from the scene is captured through the lens of the television camera, processed through the electronic communication system and end up as images on the receiver screen. The Sound Waves is captured through the microphone, processed through the electronic communication system and end up as sound produced by the speakers.

Though color transmission was available in between 1947 and 1950, Malaysians began to enjoy first color transmission launched by TV3 in 1985.

This home 'hear-and-see' set is continuously assuming new standards and today we have the latest sets that response to visual control, voice control and motion control. When I used to own a German-made TELEFUNKEN wide-body sensor touch button color set in the late 1970s, I was amazed with the technology leap. The German set provided high fidelity stereo with two large round bass speakers and four twitter speakers. The set was engineered to use PAL color system. It was gorgeous at the point of time. Beautiful color and nice sound. The wonder of that German set actually poked my mind to explore to the unthinkable possibilities of the future of television. One day, when we watched a TV show together, I told my mum and my brothers that possibly there would come a day when television would reach an engineering standard of the 'hear-and-see-and-smell'. I meant we could smell the scene. I borrowed the idea I watched my mum putting the LorAnn Oils Food strawberry flavor when she baked cakes. Lol, ... laughter broke out in the hall of the heritage city of old Melaka. It seemed to be a silly idea. I thought so. How could it be ? If television could produce aromatic smell, then the scene of a waste dumps or landfills, for example, would fill up the hall with a bad and offensive stinky pungent smell. I never expected that the experience could be written in a Blog. However, I still believed that the 'hear-and-see-and-smell' receiver is possible by the way of using liquid-contained cartridges for plug-in to the set. Wow ! how nice if there is a TV show of the chef baking Strawberry Cakes or the Mexican Coffee Buns. But then I put the idea aside for 35 years until I saw the visual control-voice control-motion control television set in Mahkota Parade last month. My son brought my attention to it otherwise I would have continue the walk to another store. It was at an electrical appliances store next to a book store in a huge shopping mall. The seeing makes me to begin to think again that the 'hear-and-see-and-smell' idea could be applied.

Though not an engineer, the trust on technology is firm. Technology is capable to pick up through digital sensors to cut off unwelcome lousy smell while permitting pleasant smell. Such standards when invented, would probably be good to deliver a choice of ambiance to the owner's place through such futuristic television set. Aromatic smell could probably get olfactory receptors working well . gamma-Decalactone could resemble peach flavor. Ethyl methylphenylglycidate might be for strawberry smell or maybe Furaneol.  People could rejuvenate with convenience. Aromatherapy is something perhaps just a push of the remote button.

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A Sunday wet afternoon inspired-original written Imaging Article (Blog Post) on the Future of Television
by this General About Blogger, Daniel A former pupil of Malacca High School Batch 1977.
Melaka. On a raining Sunday. Sunday 4th November 2012 18:09 Hours.