kinescope

Early television recording

A kinescope is a cathode-ray tube in a television set—the screen that displays the picture.

The term also refers to a recording made by filming a television broadcast directly off such a screen, the standard method of preserving live TV before videotape: The only surviving copy is a kinescope from the original 1953 broadcast.

Now historical, as the technology is obsolete.

tube

phosphor

Light-emitting coating substance

fluorescent · scanning · raster · deflection · picture tube · CRT · monochrome · electron beam · video display · oscilloscope

recording

filmstock

Unexposed cinema medium

telecine · newsreel · broadcast · capture · documentary · 16mm · 35mm · acetate · nitrate · celluloid

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recording medium/technology

kinescopevideotape

Magnetic film storage

magnetic tape · digital recording · digital video · VHS · Betamax

display technology

kinescopeLED display

Screen using light-emitting diodes

plasma screen · OLED · digital display · flat-screen · LCD screen

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telescope, microscope, kinetic, periscope, kinesthetic, kinesiology, kinesis, kinetically

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