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The first "teleprompters" were simply mechanical devices located near the camera. The script was printed on a paper scroll, which was advanced as the performer read.
As capitalized, TelePrompTer is the trade name used by the company which developed the electronic device. The TelePrompTer company was founded in the 1950s by Fred Barton , Hubert J. (Hub) Schlafly and Irving B. Khan . Barton was an actor who suggested the concept of the teleprompter as a means of assisting televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p performers who had to memorize large amounts of material in a short time.
Modern teleprompters for news programA news program is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors. A news program can include live or recorded interviewss are run from a personal computerThe term personal computer or PC has three meanings: IBM's range of PCs that led to the use of the term see IBM PC. A generic term used to describe all microcomputers (mentioned here). A generic term sometimes used to describe a computer based on IBM's or, connected to video monitors on each camera. The monitors are often black-and-white monochrome, and have the vertical scanning reversed to compensate for the reflectionThe term reflection (also spelt reflexion can refer to several different concepts: In mathematics, reflection is the transformation of a space. In physics, reflection is a wave phenomenon. In computer science, reflection is a programming language feature of the mirror. A peripheral deviceA peripheral device is any part of a computer other than the Motherboard, CPU or working memory, i. disks, keyboards, monitors, mice, printers, scanners, tape drives, microphones, speakers, cameras, etc. High speed working memory, such as RAM, ROM or, in attached to the serial portmale DB-9 serial port on the rear panel of a PC In computing, a serial port is an interface on a computer system with which information is transferred in or out one bit at a time (contrast parallel port). Throughout most of the history of personal compute has a knob that can be turned to speed up or slow down the scrolling of the text. The text is usually displayed in white capital letters on a black background for the best readability, while cues are in inverse video (black on white). Difficult words (mainly foreign names) are spelled out phonetically, as are other particulars like "2-thousand-8" (to specify that the year 2008 should not be pronounced "twenty-oh-eight", for example).