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Impact of TV on ME

I've learned a lot from watching television. I learned how to speak English and other languages. How do I protect myself? How to invent stuff? I learn about places. I learned how to dance.

TV is also good because during my free time I can watch movies. It helps me to relax. If I didn't have a TV, I would be bored.

what tv will look like in 10 years from now?

In 10 year tv will look like a I-pod touch, you can take it in your pocket, with a strong battery and solar , and you can watch anything you want for free.

Why was T.V Invented?

Television was the next logical step beyond radio. People used to sit around and listen to radio sitcoms like we watch TV shows. The next logical step beyond being able to only hear them was being able to see them. The TV like the radio was invented so the government could commincate over a long distance with its moving armies, but unlike the radio this way they would be able to sea each other face to face. It was a way of communicating life ideas. The TV was invented so people could be entertained by actors and watch people living dream jobs. Also, the TV can be used for education, like the Discovery Kids channel and the National Geographic channel. Television was invented for the advancement of society. It is not the inventor's fault if a creation meant for family entertainment is often used in a detrimental way. It was a simple act of the government. At the time TV was created, the government wanted to get the message of fear out to the public on a broader.

The modern television was only made possible with the scientific advances of the early 1900s, which included significant developments in radio, x-rays, and physics. Wireless transmission of sound became possible with the invention of the radio at the turn of the century. But the critical component necessary for the high-fidelity projection of reconstituted light information was the cathode-ray tube, originally used to produce x-rays for medical purposes. In 1906, I found that manipulating the electron stream of the cathode-ray tube with a magnetic field was possible. Less than a year later, it was suggested that the cathode-ray tube be used as a receiving device for images. Im a Russian scientist,i quickly created such a cathode-ray tube and encouraged further development of the technology.

Rosing's student, Vladimir K. Zworykin, migrated to the United States after WWI and created the "iconoscope", a device that scanned an image with an electron beam and converted it into electronic signals for transmission. To minimize the amount of data needing to be sent, he fed the image through a "mosaic" - a plate covered with microscopic photosensitive dots we now know as "pixels". The information was then broadcasted and received by a device that ran the process in reverse, using the cathode-ray tube to project images far more quickly and effectively than the mechanical televisions of the past. The first incarnation of the modern TV was born. It was successfully demonstrated in a public context in 1929.

how does a tv work?

Just as a radio and a telephone are devices for converting acoustic energy into electrical and vice versa, the television receives wirelessly transmitted electromagnetic waves and converts them into acoustic and light energy for viewing. Although the initial inspiration for the television existed as early as the 1830s, when i invented demonstrated the relationship between light and electricity, the television did not become practical for mass-production until more than a century later - in the 1940s. The history of the television is marked by a series of devices that were progressively more effective at sending or receiving wireless electronic patterns containing light and sound information.

The first "televisions", like the first computers, made use of mechanical media to store information. introduced a device using a rotating scanning disk that was perforated with small holes in a spiral pattern. Images could be "broken down" through the use of a sensitize photocell placed behind the spinning disk. The photocell then transmitted the image as a series of electrical impulses to a receiver, where the electricity could again be converted into light and shined through an identical spinning disk, which reconstituted the initial image - but at a very poor level of resolution. Many variants and imitations of this mechanical TV system were invented and used by hobbyists and electronics enthusiasts throughout the next quarter-century. Incremental improvements occurred, but the mechanical television primarily remained a curiosity impractical for mass use.

• The TV like the radio was invented so the government could commincate over a long distance with its moving armies, but unlike the radio this way they would be able to sea each other face to face.
  

• It was a way of communicating life ideas.
  
  
• The TV was invented so people could be entertained by actors and watch people living dream jobs. Also, the TV can be used for education, like the Discovery Kids channel and the National Geographic channel.
  
  
• Television was invented for the advancement of society. It is not the inventor's fault if a creation meant for family entertainment is often used in a detrimental way.
  
  
• It was a simple act of the government. At the time TV was created, the government wanted to get the message of fear out to the public on a broader level. They thought it would be an easier way to eventually control the public. As many already know, it has proven to work in that sense to this day.
  
  
• The television was invented so that the inventor (John Logie Baird) could be entertained when he was at work.
  
  
• Television was invented to give you a way to be informed of what is going on around you.
  
  
• John Logie Baird who is the "inventor of the worlds first working television" obviously saw that visual communication was required, the next step after Marconi had invented Radio.

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I used to have cable TV. I never cared much for sitcoms -- I favored "quality programming." With dozens of channels to fill the cable provider made several PBS affiliates available, probably because it didn't cost anything, so there was almost always a documentary on some curious subject being broadcast. I started to become a documentary junky. I watched shows about insects, frogs and reptiles. I saw vast armies of weaver ants consuming a forest, tree by tree. I sat and watched komodo dragons bobbing their heads and snuffling as they trotted along, while the khaki-clad narrator in the foreground whispered how fortunate it was that those giant, man-eating lizards have poor eyesight. I watched BBC dramas, historical series, and Wall Street Week with the punning Louis R. I saw most of the Jacques Cousteau specials at least twice, and was fascinated by travelogues and anthropological studies. When there was really nothing on, I could still be entertained by flipping though the channels with the remote controller, juxtaposing inanities into an amusing montage of surrealistic social commentary.

A friend of mine would listen sadly whenever I gushed over something I'd seen recently. "You know," he'd say, "it doesn't really matter what you watch, TV is inherently passive. Life is better without one. You'll read books and think more. You'll spend more time interacting constructively with the world, even if it's just a solitary hobby. Anything is better than watching that box."

I wondered whether he were right. It seemed like I was learning lots of facts from my viewing, seeing places and people otherwise inaccessible. And I wasn't convinced it was wholly passive. Rather than drooling before the screen with glazed eyes, my natural tendency towards critical analysis would step forward. I'd I watch actively, on several levels, following the narrative while observing the technique by which it was constructed and questioning its coherence, motivation and accuracy. But I did notice that TV absorbed a lot of time. Whenever I had some free minutes, too short for anything else, or thought I was too tired to go out, or work on some project, or even read, the TV would beckon. It was so convenient. It was even quasi-social. After sex, in a languid conversational void, you could watch TV together before falling asleep, and still be doing the same thing, together.

But things changed and I woke up. I moved the TV into the closet, then gave it away. In the years since I'm sure I've missed many informative and moving programs, but gained much more. A few of the most obvious differences are that I've lost all interest in pro sports while spending hours daily in real athletics; I no longer watch travel shows, but I've traveled much more; and I'm actually reading those books I always wanted to. More subtly, by avoiding bombardment with supersonic image virus I feel like I'm slowly drifting free from some of the more insipid and repugnant aspects of contemporary American culture. It may be that I've partially substituted other escapist vices for viewing, like reading and research, but those activities are still much more self-demanding, intellectually enriching and guided by my own values and curiosity, not those of any sponsor.

I'm confident that life without a TV is much better. Think about it; then get rid of yours. Smash it-- Or give it to someone whom you'd like to curse.

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