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kinescope Television.|ˈkɪnɪskəʊp|
[f. Gr. κίνη(σις movement + -scope.]
1. A cathoderay tube specially constructed for use in a television set. Chiefly U.S.
The registration as a proprietary name was cancelled in 1950.
1930Sci. Amer. Feb. 147/3 Dr. Zworykin developed an entirely new type of cathode-ray tube for his receiving apparatus which he calls a ‘kinescope’. 1932Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 17 May 568/1 RCA Victor Company, Inc., Camden, N.J. Filed Feb. 6, 1931. Kinescope for Cathode Ray Tubes and Thermionic Tubes. 1933V. K. Zworykin in Proc. IRE XXI. 1656 The name ‘kinescope’ has been applied to the cathode ray tube used in the television receiver to distinguish it from ordinary cathode ray oscilloscopes because it has several important points of difference. 1949B. Grob Basic Television ix. 144 The picture tube, or kinescope, has the funnel-shaped form and internal structure of a conventional cathode-ray tube. 1971H. E. Ennes Television Broadcasting viii. 357 The kinescope upon which the image to be recorded is displayed is a special type of tube employing a flat face, with phosphor and brightness characteristics that allow use of inexpensive film.
2. A film recording made from a television broadcast.
1949Richmond (Va.) News Leader 25 Oct. 30/1 Kinescope or television recording, the process of filming a television show off the receiving tube. 1953Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 July 15/1 On June 2 a United States television network transmitted a kinescope version of the B.B.C.'s television of the Abbey Coronation service. 1957Economist 19 Oct. 226/1 It buys a programme or series of programmes from, say, station KETC in St Louis, and then makes it available to all the other ETV outlets on kinescope. 1957P. Frank Seven Days to Never ii. 20 He took a course in American television and radio. Every Tuesday afternoon he listened to recordings, and watched kinescopes, of the most popular programs. 1964L. A. Wortman Closed-Circuit Television Handbk. v. 93 The major advantage in kinescope recording is that the final film can be shown wherever there is a 16-mm projector.
Hence ˈkinescope v. trans., to make a kinescope of; ˈkinescoped ppl. a., reproduced from a kinescope recording; ˈkinescoping vbl. n.
1949Life 17 Oct. 75 Each show is kinescoped (filmed and sound-tracked) and re-telecast from stations in the rest of the country. 1961P. Lewis Educ. Television Guidebk. iv. 70 (heading) Kinescoping possibilities. 1964L. A. Wortman Closed-Circuit Television Handbk. v. 93 One can usually recognize a kinescoped telecast by virtue of its visual quality. 1967Telegraph (Brisbane) 3 Mar. 12/1 The only way then to record a show was by a film technique called ‘kinescoping’... At that time the quality was diabolical. |