The Grid: CRTs, Rasters and the Scanline

The cathode-ray tube was the pixel's first home. How video was invented, why color TV was so hard, how analog television paints lines of light, and the machines that drew the grid.

Playlist by @pixel_history

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. How a TV Works in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys — The Slow Mo Guys
2. How Was Video Invented? — Veritasium
3. Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult — Primal Space
4. Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works — Technology Connections
5. Philo Farnsworth and the Invention of Electronic Television — Technology Connections
6. Making Super Fast Electrons, Cathode Ray — ElectroBOOM
7. Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product — Technology Connections
8. Interlaced vs. Progressive Scan - 1080i vs. 1080p — Techquickie
9. These Are Not Pixels: Revisited — Technology Connections
10. How VGA Works — Tech Tangents