How New Media Affect TV Viewing

Supplementary Material for Chapter 5 in When Media Are New

Copyright 2010, John Carey and Martin C.J. Elton Last updated 12/11/10

Part 2

Watching TV on the Web

Mobile Phones

3D TV

Abbreviated 3D Timeline

• 1830 Charles Wheatstone creates the reflecting mirror stereoscope

• 1880-1895 Eadweard Muybridge, William Dickson (working for Thomas Edison) and others experiment with stereoscopic motion pictures.

• 1922 Short films in 3-D are presented in New York using the Teleview Projector; in Los Angeles, a feature length 3-D film, “The Power of Love” is screened for the press. • 1936 MGM releases “Audioscopiks,” a 3-D short.

• 1939 “In Tune With Tomorrow,” a 3-D film premieres at the New York World’s Fair. • 1952 “Bwana Devil” a 3-D feature length film is released

• 1953, It Came From Outer Space

• 1969, The Stewardesses • 1974, Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein

• 1983, Amityville 3D

• 1991, Muppet*Vision

• 2004, Polar Express

• 2010, Avatar

Select List of 3D Movies

1981 – 3D TV has been tried periodically

Streaming Web Video Onto TV Sets

Epilogue

Bad Ideas Resurface

A refrigerator with a built-in TV set