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Originally Posted by Stephen
I couldn't believe how big and expensive and really impractical Baird's system was and even that early TV sets had a switch to change between the two systems, it really was experimental and a real shame that no real documentation exists in regards to the machine.
Imagine if that system did in some other reality win, then TV as we know it would not be here.
Still as you say very fascinating.
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I wondered this too.
After a bit of research I found this after someone asked what we were thinking:
'We still use mechanical TV systems. Blu Ray, DVD and VHS are all mechanical systems involving motors, even PVRs have mechanical parts.
The Apollo Television and early Space Shuttle TV used a version of the Baird sequential system which later went on to DLP with rear screen projection TV's using the Baird colour filter wheel as late as the 1990s'.