TELEVISION, WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT IT (TV in general)

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Product:	TV in general
Date:	26/08/07 (86 review reads)
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Advantages: USED FOR MARKETING, ENTERTAINMENT, POLITICS AND MORE

Disadvantages: ABUSED? BRAIN WASHING? POLITICAL AGENDAS?

TV - Television is great!!

---INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY----

God bless Willoughby Smith in 1873 for the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium and the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884.
Yes television is complicated and was black and white until the Russians in 1889 realised they could have colour televisions!

---the UK's history---
The first British television broadcast was made by Baird Television's electromechanical system over the BBC radio transmitter in September 1929. Baird provided a limited amount of programming five days a week by 1930. On August 22, 1932, BBC launched its own regular service using Baird's 30-line electromechanical system, continuing until September 11, 1935.

Other countries such started television broadcasting much later, for example Canada started in 1952!

Tv's are extremely popular nowadays with most households having at least 1. The living room has developed into the television room and many bedrooms now have their own televisions.

Technology behind Tv is rather complicated so I will not explain the waves and frequencies. - However I can explain that the frequency name used for the United Kingdom is PAL - so when you buy a tv or PlayStation (/ PlayStation game)etc. make sure its PAL so it will work with UK tv's etc.
NTSC is for the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Mexico, and some other countries
SECAM - is for the french.

Tv's come in all shapes and sizes, from thin LCD's to the fat old style televisions. The 14" to the 40". Now to the 150" - thanks to the television projector.
I personally have a 5" tv in my room and a 22" downstairs. Both have their own freeview boxes - allowing the television to receive digital television (with no subscription)

-----Prices----
TV prices vary depending on the model you want. You can get television via UHF - just using an aerial and you will get local television channels - you don't need a satellite dish or to pay for any digital boxes.
In the UK there are 5 UHF channels. Technically they are free, however you need to pay a television subscription fee - i.e. own a tv license

A colour TV Licence costs £135.50 and a black and white licence costs £45.50.

You can buy your tv license online or via many methods - info can be seen at:
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/index.jsp

You can buy digital boxes that allow you to receive other channels from all over the world, packages include SKY, NTL, VIRGIN MEDIA and many more.

---Is a Tv license necessary----
You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV.

If you use a set-top box with a hi-fi system or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.
(you only need 1 per household)
You will need to renew your TV Licence every year.

----The best television channels----
Best tv channels in my opinion are:

1)SKY 1/SKY SPORTS
2)SKY MOVIES
3)CHANNEL 4
4)MTV

There are different tv channels for different people, from shopping channels like Bid Tv to baby channels like Cbeebies, from movie channels to adult channels. Television has almost every genre imaginable like cartoons, documentaries, soaps etc.

Amongst my favorite television programmes: Skins (E4/channel4), The simpsons (sky1/channel4), and dramas like lost/prison-break/meadowlands etc.

I have personally had Sky and NTL previously and now use freeview.

Television programmes can now be seen on the Internet, in fact you can watch live television from your computer, not only with a tv tuner but via the Internet (live streams)

Television has developed rapidly and there are many issues such as what can be shown and what cannot, over time the rules have been relaxed greatly - there is the watershed - i.e. adult content, violence etc cannot be shown till after a certain time (eg. 9.00pm) Also swearing cannot be heard until after (eg. 6.00pm)
obviously censorship laws vary from different countries, some have very relaxed laws eg. Russia and others more strict eg. Iran

Television is not only used for entertainment and marketing but is also used for political agendas - election parties advertise their candidates and their party on TV. Television channels make a lot of money through advertising - in between television programmes they display adverts. Some channels like the BBC do not have adverts.

Television along with technology has developed so greatly that now you can pause live TV, rewind and fast forward television! As well as record at a touch of a button.

For more information on freeview see my review on freeview.

Summary: Television is growing all the time, people all want to be famous, - the best way, through television