Television
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A television (also TV, telly or tube) is a device (tool) with a screen that receives broadcast signals and turns them into pictures and sound. The word "television" comes from the words tele (Greek for far away) and vision (seeing).
Usually a TV looks like a box. Older TVs had large wooden frames and sat on the floor like furniture. Newer TVs were made smaller, so they could fit on shelves, or even portable, so you could take it with you wherever you went. The smallest TVs can fit in your hand. The largest TVs can take up a whole wall in your house, and may sit on the floor, or be just a large flat screen that can be mounted on the wall. Many TVs are now made in widescreen shape like movie theatre screens, rather than old, squarer TVs.
A television has an antenna (or aerial), or it has a cable. This gets the signal from the air, or cable provider. TVs can also show movies from DVD players or VCRs. TVs can also be connected to some computers and video game consoles.
The first televisions could only show pictures made of only two colors, black and white. Mixes of the two made many shades of gray. Newer televisions can show all the colors we can see.
Today, besides the typical cathode ray tube TV, there are also LCD, Plasma, Rear-Projection, and OLED TVs.
[edit] See also
- Soap opera
- Television station
- BBC
[edit] TV
TBS (TV network)
