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Evolution of the Television Set

Television sets have become ubiquitous in homes and institutions as a source of entertainment, news, and advertising. A TV combines a tuner, display, and speakers to receive broadcast content through satellites, cables, or computers. John Logie Baird created the first mechanical television in 1926 using basic materials like scissors and bicycle lenses to transmit moving images. After World War II, electronic TVs using cathode ray tubes became widely popular consumer products. The addition of color broadcasting in the 1950s further increased popularity, and flat panel LCD TVs have now largely replaced older display technologies.

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Evolution of the Television Set

Television sets have become ubiquitous in homes and institutions as a source of entertainment, news, and advertising. A TV combines a tuner, display, and speakers to receive broadcast content through satellites, cables, or computers. John Logie Baird created the first mechanical television in 1926 using basic materials like scissors and bicycle lenses to transmit moving images. After World War II, electronic TVs using cathode ray tubes became widely popular consumer products. The addition of color broadcasting in the 1950s further increased popularity, and flat panel LCD TVs have now largely replaced older display technologies.

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Television set

A small box with enormous information that changed entertainment and communications
forever.

A television set or television receiver, more commonly called a television, TV, TV set,
or telly, is a device that combines a tuner, display, and loudspeakers, for the purpose of viewing
and hearing television shows broadcast through satellites or cables, or viewing and hearing
a computer.

The Television set has become commonplace in our homes, offices, and institutions,
particularly as a prime source for advertising, entertainment, and news. Through TV, viewers
can see and learn about people, places and things in faraway lands. TV brings its viewers a
steady stream of programs that are designed to entertain; action packed dramas, light comedies,
soap operas, sports, cartoons, quizzes, variety shows and motion pictures right into their living
rooms.

We depend on TV for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sports—and even


music. Television is a useful, educational way to learn what’s going on in the world. These
documentaries entertain as well as inform. These include travel programs, unique facts about
animals and their behaviors, and discussions on serious issues as alcoholism, drug abuse, poverty
and racial prejudice.

Television is a source of recreation. Humorous stories and funny films bring us minutes
of relaxation after a hard day.

Since the 1970s the availability of video cassettes, CDs, DVDs and now Blu-ray Discs,
has resulted in the frequent use of TV for viewing recorded as well as broadcasted material. In
recent years Internet television has risen

Introduced in the late 1920s in mechanical form, television sets became a popular
consumer product after World War II in electronic form, using cathode ray tube (CRT)
technology.

The device in question was not known as the television in 1926, rather it was the "the
televisor" or mechanical television, in which a rotating mechanism generated an image.The
creator was John Logie Baird. His first television set used an old hat box, a pair of scissors, some
darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, and sealing wax and glue.

The image as transmitted was faint and often blurred, but substantiated a claim that
through the ‘televisor,’ as Mr Baird has named his apparatus, it is possible to transmit and
reproduce instantly the details of movement, and such things as the play of expression on the
face.
The addition of color to broadcast television after 1953 further increased the popularity of
television sets in the 1960s, and an outdoor antenna became a common feature of suburban
homes. The ubiquitous television set became the display device for the first recorded media in
the 1970s, such as Betamax, VHS and later DVD. It has been used as a display device since the
first generation of home computers (e.g. Timex Sinclair 1000) and dedicated video
game consoles (e.g. Atari) in the 1980s. By the early 2010s, flat-panel television
incorporating liquid-crystal display (LCD) technology, especially LED-backlit LCD technology,
largely replaced CRT and other display technologies.[1][2] [3] [4] [5] Modern flat panel TVs are
typically capable of high-definition display (720p, 1080i, 1080p) and can also play content from
a USB device.

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