In 1926, British inventor John Logie Baird became the first to successfully transmit moving images through the mechanical disc system invented by Nipkow. He also started the very first television studio. From 1926 to 1931, the mechanical television system experienced many innovations.

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The history of French television summarizes in major stages the scientific, economic and social evolution of this technical device in France, which has become a mass media .

The French were massively equipped with television from the 1970s : if 1 in 10 households had a set at the start of the decade, they were more than 9 in 10 by the end. This period also saw the arrival of color in almost all programs, even if color televisions were very expensive at the beginning, while the channels multiplied from 1984 .

In the 1990s , satellite dishes took over from rake antennas before being in turn replaced by internet boxes at the end of the 2000s . In 2011, television in France switched to all digital, then, 5 years later, to high definition.