What would have happened if Holograms were researched over television?

Early on in TV development, holograms and television were researched side by side. For one reason or another (I believe it was ease) more research was put into television and the hologram was left to slowly fade away and die. How might our world today be different if holograms were used instead of screens?

Such possible explorations on the subject can be found with teaching, use of the computer, and Time Square. This is a question I am hoping the community could take time to answer please.
 
Early on in TV development, holograms and television were researched side by side. For one reason or another (I believe it was ease) more research was put into television and the hologram was left to slowly fade away and die. How might our world today be different if holograms were used instead of screens?

Such possible explorations on the subject can be found with teaching, use of the computer, and Time Square. This is a question I am hoping the community could take time to answer please.

That's not really feasible, although the theory was developed in the 40's optical holography wasn't practical until the invention of the laser in 1960, and in no way was it comparable to TV or film. Any sort of TV/movie like holographic experience is still a couple of serious breakthroughs away even today.
 
That may only be the case because we have not put proper research into its development. TV required a decent number of breakthroughs (though not to quite the same extent, which is why it was favored). However, if we had dropped the idea of screens entirely and holograms was what came out of it, how would it have turned out?
 
That may only be the case because we have not put proper research into its development. TV required a decent number of breakthroughs (though not to quite the same extent, which is why it was favored). However, if we had dropped the idea of screens entirely and holograms was what came out of it, how would it have turned out?

Sorry but your idea of the OTL history of TV and holograms is totally wrong; they were never competitors. TV was being experimented on with in the 20's, the theory of holography wasn't developed until the 40's and the means needed to create an optical hologram wasn't developed until the 60's in the shape of the LASER. The LASER wasn't created to meet any particular need, it was a laboratory experiment designed to test a prediction of Quantum Mechanics(and my apologies if I'm using some of the wrong terms). To create an kind of Holographic video requires a a medium that can be refreshed about 30 times a second, I believe the best result achieved to date is about once per second and that's very much a small scale lab experiment.
The situation you describe as a POD is already an alternative history because that's just not how things happened in our timeline, holography didn't exist to be sidelined by TV.
 
(Sprinkles handwavium all over the place, causing several nearby to sneeze in spectacular fashion.)

It could have a notable impact on the designs of homes, since it'll be tempting to arrange seating around the action rather than merely in front of it. (Perhaps it could lead to round houses becoming popular with designers tempted to follow the "theme" of the feature-room of a home.)

Programs featuring certain actresses (and/or actors) develop a keenly fanatical following for the "wrong" reasons.

With the expense and presumed size and complexity of holoviewer systems, I'm wondering if the sets are kept for much longer periods of time than televisions and consumers focus on upgrading or replacing certain components instead. Manufacturers perhaps drum up interest in new-fangled lenses or bulbs, etc.
 
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