Many people know that British inventor John Logie Baird invented a primitive form of TV back in the late 20s that got nowhere, and rightly so. The thing is though, after realising his mistake, he grabbed the idea of CRT and ran with it, so that by 1941 he'd developed a 500 line monochrome 3D TV, and by 1944 a 600 line colour TV with triple-interlacing (far more advanced than the 405 line monochrome of the day). Unfortunately, he died in 1946 a few months a stroke, and so his far more advanced TV never saw the light of day. But what if he'd survived, only partially crippled, how much better would TVs be today if they'd got a 20 year (at least) lead on OTL?