My god. This movie was made in 1966 and it basically had a 64" T.V. (flatscreen) on the wall ...
Absolutely amazing.
A TV Guide article in the early 1970s predicted that in the future the cathode ray tube would give way to plasma screen TVs that would be thin and flat and hang on the wall like a picture. I'm not sure why it took so long, but 25 years later they finally arrived on the market.
shareNot to take away from the fertile imagination of Mr. Bradbury, but he didn't conjure this idea up from nothing. As others pointed out, it was a long time coming. Look at pictures of NORAD/Cheyenne Mountain and NASA Mission Control in the early 60s... they had some sort of HUGE screen technology in use, courtesy of UNlimited post-WW2 budgets (and Cold War hysteria).
Just took a few decades to make it AFFORDABLE. Additionally, you have calculate the "investment inertia" of how much capital intensive manufacturing equipment the big TV mfrs. had devoted to cranking out PROVEN big heavy (vacuum) glass CRT picture tubes.
(Say what you will about old CRT technology, but those things are a LOT more fun to shoot with a handgun than flat screens, LOL!)
The big screens at NORAD were rear projection, hand drawn back lit, etc., not LCD or plasma with high resolution pixel displays.
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This movie was made in 1966 and it basically had a 64" T.V. (flatscreen) on the wall ...I agree. They got that very right. share
Even more fascinating was the line that equated the screen to their family. And the 'reality' of playing off the TV screen as the wife did. Both are pretty true now.
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