Believe it or not, the Mickey Mouse clip used for this demonstration is actually in the public domain. The earliest televisions used a spinning disk technology called the Nipkow disk, which is exactly ...

Believe it or not, the Mickey Mouse clip used for this demonstration is actually in the public domain. The earliest televisions used a spinning disk technology called the Nipkow disk, which is exactly ...

Replay: Before the cathode ray tube won the first ever video format war there was mechanical TV, and riveting programming such as man turning his head captivated early viewers. Here's how it worked.