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From the first television image being beamed across the ocean to movies being streamed from space, here are some of the most definitive moments in the evolution of television. This ain't your mother's TV set—and neither is Boxee, the newest entry in television's storied history.

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In 1936 Television was put on display at the New York's World Fair and the San Francisco Golden Gate Exposition. The company RCA used the exhibit at the fair to introduce new receivers as well as show the first presidential speech featuring President Roosevelt!

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Color television (1953) | 12 Innovations From The 1950s That We Still Use Today

While we tend to associate the '50s with sock hops, Elvis, and the Golden Age of Television, it also happened to be a decade that greatly improved our lives.

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Color TV became commercially viable in the early 1950s but didn’t really take off until the mid-1960s when the big three (and only) television networks made a concerted effort to significantly increase the amount of color programming, broadcasting classic shows like Gilligan’s Island, My Favorite Martian, and Lassie in “brilliant, true-to-life color” for the first time.

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