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Are the ITV companies dragging their feet over introducing colour television? Not if colour is allowed on 405-lines, says A-R’s head of engineering

Videotape arrives at Associated-Rediffusion

The behind-the-scenes story of putting Telstar on television

The behind-the-scenes technical story of putting Telstar on television

Television… from an aeroplane?

The EBU might be about to choose a colour standard… but which one?

A new development could do away with film processing forever

Rediffusion’s Ronald Elliott is shocked to be offered films and TV programmes to watch as he crosses the Atlantic by jet in 1965

Associated-Rediffusion’s managing director tells the Hollywood Press Club what’s wrong with modern TV technology

The government is set to start a cable TV revolution, any moment now

Television from North America? An Associated-Rediffusion engineering manager sets out the facts

A film or a TV programme on a tape that you can hold in the palm of your hand?

Could we soon be watching Australian and South African TV?

The BBC’s senior engineer on where television goes from here

How soon the end of the cathode ray tube?

An advertising feature for a company that’s cabling the valleys around Neath

After councils ban aerials on their housing stock, a word to the wise in 1955

TV’s Jasmine Bligh talks to the man in charge of getting good pictures out of Lime Grove in 1954

An expert answers the question which many people ask as they watch their TV screen

The size of your TV picture is changing, but there’s no reason to worry

A new development on the streets of London: a blue box from which help can be obtained at any time

The superhuman effort of getting microwave dishes up towers for outside broadcasts

You’re about to see the world from a very unusual angle: straight down!

There was a time when nobody had ever heard their own voice. This machine could change all that

How a TV camera works

Cable TV invites you to get the new BSB

Instantaneous live OBs from anywhere in Europe? With the Orbital Test Satellite, it could be coming soon

A hi-tech TV experiment creates a village in Lancashire with an amazing choice of 30 TV channels

The trials of getting television pictures from far away outside broadcasts back to the studio

A new control room for live continental broadcasting exchange opens in Broadcasting House

Technological developments abound at the IBA: teletext, satellites, standards conversion and much more

The new concrete Emley Moor mast is commissioned

New technology sweeps ITV, with ENG, computer editing and ½-inch tape at the fore

It sounds amazing, but one day soon we could all be watching television that arrives at our homes from a satellite

Bill Cotton, recently promoted to head up the BBC’s future multichannels policy, on what he’s expecting by the year 2000

A tiny company serves the largest area thanks to modern technology

The most common things that go wrong with your television set – and how to fix them

The head of BBC home video offers his advice to those about to get their first VCR

Before the BBC, there was the Electrophone

A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments

Television: it’s all about timing and clocks

Make sure your television set is fully adjusted to improve your viewing

Will television have an effect on voters at election time? Leeds University plan to find out, using an ‘electronic brain’ in 1959

Will it ever be possible to exchange television across the Atlantic? Bell Laboratories have a plan to lay a cable in 1955

Anglia Television is about to come on air, meaning lots of technical developments