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Show THEiondAO THEN: The first home television set was demonstrated demon-strated in 1928, in Schenectady, Schenec-tady, New York, by Dr. E.F.W. AJexanderson. By August 1931, there were an estimated 9,000 sets in New York City and 30,000 more in the rest of the country. Screen sizes were miniscule. A "large screen" set of 11.3 square inches wasn't introduced intro-duced until 1931. Wrm HI ".S IWTr NOW: There's a new set with a 1,000-square-inch picture pic-ture that's three times the size of the popular 25-inch diagonal screen. Created by General Electric, the Wide-screen Wide-screen 1000 Home Television Theatre almost turns your living room into a movie theatre. Featuring VIR Broadcast Controlled Color, remote-control tuning and dual speakers with improved sound, GE's giant screen set is a one-piece unit in a wood cabinet 50 inches high, 70 inches long and 24 inches deep, or no deeper than GE 25-inch TV sets. |