WI: Baird Lives

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?
 
i want to see what everyone thinks, too. unfortunately, i dont know enough about the man to have any idea of how this would affect anything. maybe color television would spring up sooner?
 
I figured that there'd be a big rise in colour in 1952, the way TVs sales did due to the Coronation. Maybe if he survives long enough we might see a 50s release of video tapes as well, once he realised that like Nipkow Discs, Phonovision is too limited to be really effective.
 
There's a whole section about Baird in a James May book 'Magnificent Machines' it amazed me, and I earned a lot of respect for Baird. Bleeding Crystal Palace ruining his labs.

He also invented a sort of primitive video recorder that they eventually used to see what he recorded and it worked i think.
 
That was the Phonovision, but like the Nipkow Disc idea that he based his original TV on, while it worked in principal, it was pretty poor for the stuff that would come along not much later.
 
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