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Television , At the same time radio began to achieve commercial viability in the 1920s, the United States and Britain began experimenting with "television," the w… Philo Taylor Farnsworth , Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971) is known as the father of television by proving, as a young man, that pictures could be televised electronically.
On… High definition television , HDTV • abbr. high-definition television, using more lines per frame to give a sharper image than a conventional television.
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