DuMont pioneered both television manufacture and broadcasting.
DuMont Laboratories were responsible for many early technical innovations, including the first consumer-oriented electronic television set in 1938. The one pictured above may be the actual set (or very similar at least) to the one that my whole family was watching in the living room of my Grandmother's house in Belleville, NJ. As usual, I was the remote control for the family, so I got to sit right up in front of it (Joey, put on channel four).
This is what we were watching when all of us first saw the Beatles. Look at where technology has taken us.
Back then, that Dumount, new, probably cost around $ 350.00 in 1954 dollars - the equivalent of roughly $ 4,200.00 in todays dollars.
40" SMART TV for only $ 169.99.
How far we've come - Take a look...
In the pic that looks small but I remember my grandparents RCA had 2 doors and weighed as much as a Buick. And I remember my dad always fiddling with the rgb settings on the back of ours also an RCA.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing Jackie Gleason on the Dumont network.
ReplyDeleteTV technology has grown, but TV content has turned to crap.
ReplyDeleteSo true. I watched a couple of DVD's the other night when wife was out with friends but apart from that I haven't watched a TV screen (as opposed to a computer screen) for many years and no MSM content for as long as I can remember.
DeleteI remember seeing the Beatles on the Jack Parr show before they were on the Ed Sullivan show. Jack just showed a movie clip of the Beatles performing in England.
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