Television: A Brief History
While it may seem an unbelievable concept to the modern day individual, there was one a time before the television existed. One cannot help but wonder what people did with their spare time, how information and news was spread and how a basic enjoyment could be found. Well, maybe everyone just talked to each other, though that can't have been as interesting as the latest sci-fi drama or an episode of one's favourite soap! The first demonstration of televised images was in 1926. The product of many years work, the first images on a television are unimpressive to us now, ...
What Is High Definition Television?
In a world where technology changes seemingly by the second, keeping apace with the changing times can be an uphill battle. Yet there is one televisual revolution that one cannot afford to not keep up with, and that is high definition television. Better known as HD TV (or sometimes simply HDTV, without the space), high definition television is the key revolutionary word in TV broadcast. As the name somewhat implies, HD is the same television programmes you're used to watching, but broadcast in higher definition. This means that the picture quality is four (or sometimes five) times clearer than normal ...
Should I Worry About Mercury in My LCD Television?
With new technology comes new risks, or so we are led to believe. With the invention of LCD televisions, banishing the more conventional TV to the scrap yard, it was only a matter of time before someone, somewhere took the opportunity to denounce the technology. LCD screens, with their thin panels and superb picture quality, were a sitting target for Luddites determined to stick to the old ways. It did not take long for a quibble with LCD screens to be found, namely the element Mercury. It is true that LCD screens do use Mercury as part of their ...
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Audio Description – Making Television Accessible To The Visually Impaired
If closed captioning technology has made television viewing more of a worthwhile pursuit for people with hearing difficulties, it took a while longer for people with visual impairments and disabilities to get their own version of the concept. However in the last decade there has been a development which now allows people who are visually impaired, or... [Read more of this article]
Closed Captioning – Bringing Television To The Hearing-Impaired
One television development which has been with us for what seems like forever, and is essential to many, is closed captioning. Many people with hearing difficulties enjoy watching television every bit as much as those with perfect hearing, but can find their viewing impaired if there is a great deal of dialogue or spoken description involved. For example,... [Read more of this article]
Wide Screen TV – A Cinema In Your Own Home
The advent of wide screen television has actually caused as many problems as it has solved, depending on whom you speak to. For many people, it allows the watching of films as they were originally intended, and gives a wider view of the field for sports games, as well as enhancing the viewing experience in other ways. However, the fact that many TV... [Read more of this article]
The V Chip – Making Viewing Safe Since 1999
Opinions will always be divided on the effect of television upon young minds. While many will always maintain that there is too big a price to pay for program-makers’ freedom to portray sex, violence and profanity, there will also always be people who counter that claim by saying that real life contains those things in great volume, and has done since... [Read more of this article]
Pausing Live TV – A Miraculous Discovery
It may be a source of some bemusement to some younger people, but for many people living today the development of the DVR – the Digital Video Recorder – has brought about a benefit that some of us thought we would never see in our lifetimes. The hard-disk based DVRs that now come as standard in some TVs and digital TV packages allow us to pause... [Read more of this article]
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