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He was put out of business by EMI in the first days of television broadcasting. The BBC made the decision to invest in EMI's camera's. 213.205.241.50 (talk) 11:48, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The British Patent Office ‘Television’ classification was granted on 24th December 1908. Baird was not the first to demonstrate a form of television. What about A. M. Low's public demonstrations at the Institute of Automobile Engineers and at Selfridges Store in 1914 of his Televista. This was so impressive that it was the subject of a US Consular Report. Low’s cellular flat screen Televista was more like our post-1980s digital television systems than any of the other early systems but 70 years before its time. Then there is George William Walton and (Sir) William Stephenson's 1923 patent 218,766. ‘Scophony Limited’ operated there commercial form of television right up to the start of World War II, something that was not achieved by J. L. Baird. Using valve (tube) technology, their Patent 213,654 describes the signal between the television transmitter and the receiver as a carrier signal modulated with both the low frequency synchronising signal and the picture data. After amplification at the receiver, a suitable filter separated the synchronising signal and from the picture data carrier. Please be objective in your articles and reference the other contributors. Baird did a lot but there are of course a host of others such as Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Philo Taylor Farnsworth and Manfred von Ardenne. PLEASE STOP IMPLYING THAT BAIRD WAS THE FIRST TO DEMONSTRATE A FORM OF TELEVISION.86.191.157.31 (talk) 14:33, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Friend and biographer and director of Baird's company ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Moseley Enri999 (talk) 22:53, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is it worth editing the page to say his given name at birth was "John Loggie Baird"?

Because we have many Bairds and Log[g]ies in our family tree, I pulled his birth certificate to see whether he is somehow connected to our family tree. His birth record very clearly lists his birth name as "John Loggie Baird.

On Ancestry I found his paternal great grandmother is listed as Elizabeth Logie/Loggie, and her father is listed as Andrew Loggie. DonMcL123 (talk) 17:09, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Baird's mechanical television technology was used by NASA in 1969, according to https://www.nms.ac.uk/discover-catalogue/broadcasting-from-the-moon-the-first-lunar-camera. Perhaps include this sentence in the second paragraph, between the first and last sentence: "Starting in 1969, NASA used Baird’s mechanical television camera technology for its live broadcast from the moon, including live images of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the lunar surface." Then cited with this URL for the source. 2600:6C4A:7BF0:4790:C94:5478:E37B:245E (talk) 16:24, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]