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Television it is a method of broadcasting visual images of stationery objects or objects that are moving and it is able to transmit images of objects between points that are distant from one another. The television receiver is an electronic device that is able to get television signals and show them on a television screen.

the type of television :

CRT televisions have been around since the mid-1930s. CRTs are quickly being replaced by the newer flat-panel televisions even though CRTs still offer some of the best color, black levels and viewing angles of any type of set. CRTs are limited to a screen size of 40 inches.

LCD televisions are by far the most common type of television sold in 2009. LCD televisions have a wide range of sizes from 15 to 55 inches. With lower costs and a wide array of sizes, LCDs have replaced CRT televisions as the standard home television. LCD televisions do not have the same color and black level performance of plasma and CRT sets; however, their low power consumption, cost and glare-free visibility have given them an edge over the other sets. Like plasma televisions, LCD televisions are generally only 4 to 5 inches thick.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Television Media :
Posted on May 8, 2011 by naypsikosa

Advantage Media Television:
– very wide range
– Impressions instantaneous
– Combined images, sound and color
– Demonstration effect
– The timing of exposure is easy
– Easily Control

Disadvantages Media Television :
– Fast pass , high frequency
– Relatively expensive
– There is no segmentation viewers
– Description and messages should be short
– Production of a long and expensive materials.

10 Interesting Facts About Television ;

1. In year 1926, J.L. Baird first displayed television which had only 30 lines and gave coarse image. Currently the digital signal of the television sends pictures with 1080 lines.
2. A 103-inch plasma TV from Panasonic is the largest plasma TV currently available in the market, costing approximately around $70,000 .
3. By the time the American child reaches 14, on an average they have seen around 11,000 murders on television.
4. The television advertisement first broadcasted on 1st July, 1941 in New York. The advertisement was for Bulova Watch for 20 seconds. It was aired before a game of baseball played between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The cost of air buy during that time was only $9.
5. In 2008, the cost of 30 seconds advertisement was $2.7 million in the Super Bowl broadcast. It is the world’s most costly airtime.
6. NASA has announced that they have lost all of their original tapes of Apollo 11’s TV transmission in August, 2006.
7. The Late Late Show of Ireland which started in 1962 and The Tonight Show which started in 1954 are the longest running talk show in the world.
8. Sony began selling VCRs in 1970 that was capable of recording the television shows. However, Sony was sued by the film studios for copyright piracy. Later on, the Supreme Court backed Sony.
9. Queen Elizabeth II has launched her own YouTube channel after fifty years when she first address for the Christmas to the public of UK.
10. Nearly 36 percent mobile phone users can now watch the video beamed straight in their phones and the trend is still rising.