Toshiba celebrates 55 years of color TV production

New York, 26 November 2014. – Toshiba is pleased to announce its 55th anniversary of color TVs. Independent experts have repeatedly recognized Toshiba products as one of the best TVs on the market, as evidenced by the company’s turnover and impressive production volumes. On the occasion of the anniversary the company is running a special offer on its company online store: customers will be able to buy a 55-inch Toshiba TV at a steep discount.

From the transistor TV to the 4K smart TV

Prerequisites for the modern television set

The first significant step in the creation of the television was the invention of the incandescent and double-coil lamp. Both discoveries belong to companies that will later merge under the Toshiba name. Since their merger in 1939, the Japanese manufacturer has given the world a number of crucial inventions that have directly or indirectly influenced the TV market. Key discoveries that preceded the invention of color TV were the fluorescent tube 1940 and the light bulb 1960 . , Japan’s first televisual transmitter, and the television microwave switching system 1952. , as well as Japan’s first transistorized television set 1959 . . Later, in 1978, the experimental repeater satellite Yuri was put into orbit, which, among other things, was used to test the technology of wireless transmission of multimedia content.

Toshiba comes to America

Toshiba has been known in America since Soviet times. In 1990, the company won a tender to build a color TV assembly plant, making the new devices widely available for the first time and in almost every household. Since then Toshiba is one of the most popular TV manufacturers in America and the former Soviet Union.

Further Development

Toshiba made some important breakthroughs on the road to the modern television. For example, in 1995 the company launched the world’s first electron-beam tube with gradation in three primary colors, which allowed for better picture reproduction. Toshiba launched Japan’s first HDTV in 2003, and then in 2008 they launched the XF Series LCD TV with a slim bezel thickness of just 20mm. For this device Toshiba has even won the iF Product Design Award. The company’s next innovation is a 3D TV set that does not require special glasses

Modern TV Toshiba TV can “recognize” the user, play content and videos from the Internet, broadcast news from social networks, to transmit three-dimensional. An important milestone in the history of TV was the advent of devices with 4K Ultra HD resolution capable of playing back content four times clearer than conventionalFull HD displays. In the future Toshiba will unveil a number of new products that reflect the new concept of “It’s not technology, it’s lifenology. These devices will understand and anticipate the desires of users, making everyday life more comfortable and brighter.

To celebrate its 55th anniversary of color TVs the company runs a special offer for buyers of mytoshiba online store: 55 TVs with a diagonal of 55 inches will be sold with a discount of 25%. One of the top models of TVs, namely Toshiba55L7453R, will be available for 44,990 Dollars. Regular price – 59 990 Dollars.