Hi,
the appraisal of the world's first scheduled electronic television broadcasting service is a bone of contention from the beginning. Germany started the scheduled electronic television broadcasting service in March, 1935. One year later, the BBC in England started with a scheduled electronic television broadcasting service on Nov. 2nd, 1936.
But the British and the German scheduled electronic television broadcasting services were quite different. The Germans used a low resolution 180 line television standard, the British had introduced a "high definition" 405 line television standard. So, from a technical viewpoint, the British television standard was definite superior in comparison with the German television standard.
The main difference concerns the television watching people. In Germany, no television sets were sold to the public in public stores. TV sets were placed in public television rooms of the Reichspost, called Fernsehstuben. Some high-grade political officers had tv sets at their home. The selling of tv sets to the public should start with the E1 in 1939, but the beginning of WW2 blasted it.
In England, tv sets were sold to the public from the beginning. Most tv sets were constructed for easy selling:
http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvyears/...vy1936text.htm
So, in summa, the British scheduled electronic television broadcasting service was in view of what we consider as television today, the world's first actual scheduled electronic television broadcasting service.
The German television standard has many deficits. The main deficit was the low definition 180 line standard. This tv standard was upgraded to 375 lines in 1936 and to 441 interlaced lines in 1937, in the year after the 405 line television service started at Alexandra Palace in London. With every upgrade, the existing television sets became obsolete.
The U.S. Americans waited until 1939, when television was already well engineered. They started with a scheduled electronic television broadcasting service with a high definition 441 line standard, which changed to 525 lines in 1941.
Kind regards,
Eckhard