How Has Tv Changed
Television & VCR/DVD’s have changed dramatically over the years
How has television changed over the last 60 years? This question can be answered in a variety of different ways ranging from the technological changes and advances it has gone through to the question of whether it has any type of effects on the way people perceive it, or if society is manipulated by what they see on television. This report will hopefully uncover and discover television how it was then until how it is now. Television broadcasting was first introduced in 1936 when it was available in London. Philo T. Farnsworth, Vladimir Zwarykin, Charles Jenkins and John Baird all were a part of the inventing of the television. Zworykin used a small piece of technology called …show more content…
cathode ray tube (CRT) in the receiver. Although seen as primitive compared to modern television advancements like plasma and LCD, the CRT is still used on TV’s today.
Naturally the availability of what we have today was unthought-of and in most cases seemed impossible, but most television sets were capable of providing at least up to four basic channels.
However, these channels were only received clearly in larger cities. It was very difficult for television signals to pass through the mountains and rural areas. In order to resolve the problem what is known as cable television was introduced in 1948. The purpose of cable television was to be able to bring existing broadcast signals to rural areas with community antennas placed at high elevations, usually on mountains or on top of tall poles. Since the invention of cable television, it has grown rapidly. USA Today and Nielson Media Research say that the average Americans home has 2.71 televisions and 2.55 people that live in the home. According to George Gerbner “TV is a world in which men outnumber women at least three to one”. (115) there are more televisions in the average home than there are people. In 1960’s people got more information from their televisions then they did from the newspapers, as in today’s world not many people even read the newspaper anymore because they all watch the news on the television or they search the internet. Plasma and LCD were in the experimental stages in the 90’s and standard CRT televisions still lead the market. How televisions now have additional features like picture in picture, sleep timers and parent …show more content…
controls.
It is estimated that 75 million people watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show either in groups of friends or with the family or at the neighbor’s house because not everyone had a television to watch at that time. The Vietnam war is the first conflict to be televised, that many people were interested in watching because they had many loved one that were in the war that had no idea what had happen in that time. 1970 Sesame Street was shown on the televisions to the children, and still to this day it is being aired for the children to watch 40 years later even though it is not as popular now as it was then. The show’s “All in the family” and “MASH” are the two most popular evening shows that people watched in the 1970’s and even today. The shows that have not been made new but have been played the same for many of years is “The Crosby Show”, “Roseanne” and “Married with Children” were big hits 20 years ago and still are today. Reality shows took over the airwaves and TV became interactive, like for example when “American Idol” started they wanted the world to interact by calling the number and voting for your favorite performer. A 30 second ad during “American Idol” costs about 750,000 dollars to play on the air. In the early 1970’s they never had commercials.
The First direct broadcast satellite television was launched in 1972. Today, cable still continues to advance with new developments with satellites. There are over 300 different channels available to cable subscribers ranging from 24 hour music channels, 24 hour movie channels, and 24 hour news channels. In addition to being able to have these types of channels, you have to pay television services like Dish Network, Direct TV, Midcontinent, and Century Link. These services offer a variety of popular movies, original programming and sports without commercial interruption.
In the 1990’s is when people started to see a big change in the television market. The main change in television has become the command center of our culture. Because television is quite different from other media such as film, theater, or music, it must be examined carefully and more in depth. People go to movies to watch movies, they go to the theaters to watch plays, and they buy music to listen to it, etc. However, we go to television for almost everything. Politics, literature, music, religion, news, commerce, you name it and television has it. Therefore, this makes us known as "television people", because for anything to be legitimate, it has to come through television. Has American society become so dependent on television that in order to be an “American” you have to watch television in order to make contact with whatever is happening in the world to be familiar with what is on the television? In other words, if we didn 't have television, do you think that people wouldn 't know what was going on or people wouldn 't be able to follow events that we see on television? If this is the case, then how did people get by before television 's invention? CNN- "News until the end of the world". Founded on June 1, 1980, by Ted Turner, CNN was viewed in more than 90 countries and a global news service by the year 1990. A 24 hour news network that covers international events, letting its viewers know what 's happening around the worlds in just a few minutes has proven to be very successful. Having correspondents in every country covering important events makes CNN an extremely capable source of the news. The competition is scarce for this nationally viewed and critically acclaimed network. In 1978 was the last year that the manufactures made black and white TV’s and by then most people had colored televisions any ways, people still to this day have black and white TV’s that could be worth money today. The average salary in the 1970’s was 7,500 dollars a year and the average price for a television was 400 to 700 dollars. In today world televisions cost 500 to 3,000 brand new, you can find them cheaper from private sales or sales at stores like on Black Friday or the day after Christmas sales.
In the 1980’s television and VCR/Home game systems became more popular.
Video Cassette Recorder (VCR). The VCR was first developed in the 1950’s, but did not become a part of the average home entertainment system until the 1980’s, when the machines became much more affordable for the average household. The VCR uses ordinary video cassettes, measuring approximately four inches by seven inches, containing yards of video tape inside. This video tape is little more than a plastic strip covered with particles of iron oxide. This strip is recorded on by changing the television signals used to broadcast programs into magnetic fields, which magnetize the particles of iron oxide into patterns. The tape is played back by converting the magnetic patterns on the tape back into television signals. Many VCRs today use a form of recording and playback known as helical scan. In helical scan, one or two record/playback heads are mounted on the circumference of a drum that rotates rapidly in the same direction as the tape moves. Through this process the video tape is rolled off of one reel in the cassette, through the heads of the VCR where it is converted to picture form, and back onto the opposite reel of the video cassette. The Digital Video Disc (DVD) player was recently developed, and has undergone some major advancement through the use of rapidly advancing technology. Unlike the VCR, DVD uses a circular disc, similar in appearance to music CDs. On this disc, or DVD, original video
signals are encoded by the manufacturer as minute elliptical depressions in the surface of the disk. This information is arranged in a single long spiral, like the groove of a record. To play back the images, the track is scanned by a very narrow laser beam inside the DVD player. Light from this laser beam is modified by the elliptical depressions, and is then converted back into the original patterns of electrical signals. These signals are then fed by cable into a standard television, where they are converted to a picture. DVD’s took over VCR tapes in 2000, you cannot find very many VCR tapes around anymore. In less than 10 years more the 80 percent of homes had DVD players and got rid of the VCR players.
All television goes digital in 2009. Networks would only be producing a digital signal, by this I mean that you would have to have a cable company to be able to get shows to watch. As of today people cannot get television shows off of an antenna. Cable is a have to have if you want to watch television in your house. According to my grandmother she said that “elderly people in today’s world think it is crazy to have to pay for television, when in their day they did not have to pay for anything besides the television set and the antenna to pick up the TV shows”. People in the 1960’s never thought that the television world would take over people lives and now we are in 2013 and there is many different things that you can do with a cable that so many older people do not believe in having it because they are used to what they have. In a Gallup poll in 1992 and 1999, two out of five adults responded and seven out of the ten teenagers said that they spent too much time watching TV other surveys have shown that roughly 10 percent of adults call themselves TV addicts. (125)
Works Cited
Monaghan,Erin.10Toptenreviews.TechmediaNetwork,2013.Web29Sept.2013Path:www.TV.toptenviews.com
Petracca, Michael, and Madeleine Sorapure, eds. Common Culture Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture. Seventh ed. N.p.: Pearson Education, Inc., 2012. 115-26. Print.
The News: The Process Behind the Presentation. ThinkQuest, 27 Dec. 2011. Web. 2 Oct. 2013
Johnson, Eileen. Telephone interview. 1 Oct. 2013
How has television changed over the last 60 years? This question can be answered in a variety of different ways ranging from the technological changes and advances it has gone through to the question of whether it has any type of effects on the way people perceive it, or if society is manipulated by what they see on television. This report will hopefully uncover and discover television how it was then until how it is now. Television broadcasting was first introduced in 1936 when it was available in London. Philo T. Farnsworth, Vladimir Zwarykin, Charles Jenkins and John Baird all were a part of the inventing of the television. Zworykin used a small piece of technology called …show more content…
cathode ray tube (CRT) in the receiver. Although seen as primitive compared to modern television advancements like plasma and LCD, the CRT is still used on TV’s today.
Naturally the availability of what we have today was unthought-of and in most cases seemed impossible, but most television sets were capable of providing at least up to four basic channels.
However, these channels were only received clearly in larger cities. It was very difficult for television signals to pass through the mountains and rural areas. In order to resolve the problem what is known as cable television was introduced in 1948. The purpose of cable television was to be able to bring existing broadcast signals to rural areas with community antennas placed at high elevations, usually on mountains or on top of tall poles. Since the invention of cable television, it has grown rapidly. USA Today and Nielson Media Research say that the average Americans home has 2.71 televisions and 2.55 people that live in the home. According to George Gerbner “TV is a world in which men outnumber women at least three to one”. (115) there are more televisions in the average home than there are people. In 1960’s people got more information from their televisions then they did from the newspapers, as in today’s world not many people even read the newspaper anymore because they all watch the news on the television or they search the internet. Plasma and LCD were in the experimental stages in the 90’s and standard CRT televisions still lead the market. How televisions now have additional features like picture in picture, sleep timers and parent …show more content…
controls.
It is estimated that 75 million people watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show either in groups of friends or with the family or at the neighbor’s house because not everyone had a television to watch at that time. The Vietnam war is the first conflict to be televised, that many people were interested in watching because they had many loved one that were in the war that had no idea what had happen in that time. 1970 Sesame Street was shown on the televisions to the children, and still to this day it is being aired for the children to watch 40 years later even though it is not as popular now as it was then. The show’s “All in the family” and “MASH” are the two most popular evening shows that people watched in the 1970’s and even today. The shows that have not been made new but have been played the same for many of years is “The Crosby Show”, “Roseanne” and “Married with Children” were big hits 20 years ago and still are today. Reality shows took over the airwaves and TV became interactive, like for example when “American Idol” started they wanted the world to interact by calling the number and voting for your favorite performer. A 30 second ad during “American Idol” costs about 750,000 dollars to play on the air. In the early 1970’s they never had commercials.
The First direct broadcast satellite television was launched in 1972. Today, cable still continues to advance with new developments with satellites. There are over 300 different channels available to cable subscribers ranging from 24 hour music channels, 24 hour movie channels, and 24 hour news channels. In addition to being able to have these types of channels, you have to pay television services like Dish Network, Direct TV, Midcontinent, and Century Link. These services offer a variety of popular movies, original programming and sports without commercial interruption.
In the 1990’s is when people started to see a big change in the television market. The main change in television has become the command center of our culture. Because television is quite different from other media such as film, theater, or music, it must be examined carefully and more in depth. People go to movies to watch movies, they go to the theaters to watch plays, and they buy music to listen to it, etc. However, we go to television for almost everything. Politics, literature, music, religion, news, commerce, you name it and television has it. Therefore, this makes us known as "television people", because for anything to be legitimate, it has to come through television. Has American society become so dependent on television that in order to be an “American” you have to watch television in order to make contact with whatever is happening in the world to be familiar with what is on the television? In other words, if we didn 't have television, do you think that people wouldn 't know what was going on or people wouldn 't be able to follow events that we see on television? If this is the case, then how did people get by before television 's invention? CNN- "News until the end of the world". Founded on June 1, 1980, by Ted Turner, CNN was viewed in more than 90 countries and a global news service by the year 1990. A 24 hour news network that covers international events, letting its viewers know what 's happening around the worlds in just a few minutes has proven to be very successful. Having correspondents in every country covering important events makes CNN an extremely capable source of the news. The competition is scarce for this nationally viewed and critically acclaimed network. In 1978 was the last year that the manufactures made black and white TV’s and by then most people had colored televisions any ways, people still to this day have black and white TV’s that could be worth money today. The average salary in the 1970’s was 7,500 dollars a year and the average price for a television was 400 to 700 dollars. In today world televisions cost 500 to 3,000 brand new, you can find them cheaper from private sales or sales at stores like on Black Friday or the day after Christmas sales.
In the 1980’s television and VCR/Home game systems became more popular.
Video Cassette Recorder (VCR). The VCR was first developed in the 1950’s, but did not become a part of the average home entertainment system until the 1980’s, when the machines became much more affordable for the average household. The VCR uses ordinary video cassettes, measuring approximately four inches by seven inches, containing yards of video tape inside. This video tape is little more than a plastic strip covered with particles of iron oxide. This strip is recorded on by changing the television signals used to broadcast programs into magnetic fields, which magnetize the particles of iron oxide into patterns. The tape is played back by converting the magnetic patterns on the tape back into television signals. Many VCRs today use a form of recording and playback known as helical scan. In helical scan, one or two record/playback heads are mounted on the circumference of a drum that rotates rapidly in the same direction as the tape moves. Through this process the video tape is rolled off of one reel in the cassette, through the heads of the VCR where it is converted to picture form, and back onto the opposite reel of the video cassette. The Digital Video Disc (DVD) player was recently developed, and has undergone some major advancement through the use of rapidly advancing technology. Unlike the VCR, DVD uses a circular disc, similar in appearance to music CDs. On this disc, or DVD, original video
signals are encoded by the manufacturer as minute elliptical depressions in the surface of the disk. This information is arranged in a single long spiral, like the groove of a record. To play back the images, the track is scanned by a very narrow laser beam inside the DVD player. Light from this laser beam is modified by the elliptical depressions, and is then converted back into the original patterns of electrical signals. These signals are then fed by cable into a standard television, where they are converted to a picture. DVD’s took over VCR tapes in 2000, you cannot find very many VCR tapes around anymore. In less than 10 years more the 80 percent of homes had DVD players and got rid of the VCR players.
All television goes digital in 2009. Networks would only be producing a digital signal, by this I mean that you would have to have a cable company to be able to get shows to watch. As of today people cannot get television shows off of an antenna. Cable is a have to have if you want to watch television in your house. According to my grandmother she said that “elderly people in today’s world think it is crazy to have to pay for television, when in their day they did not have to pay for anything besides the television set and the antenna to pick up the TV shows”. People in the 1960’s never thought that the television world would take over people lives and now we are in 2013 and there is many different things that you can do with a cable that so many older people do not believe in having it because they are used to what they have. In a Gallup poll in 1992 and 1999, two out of five adults responded and seven out of the ten teenagers said that they spent too much time watching TV other surveys have shown that roughly 10 percent of adults call themselves TV addicts. (125)
Works Cited
Monaghan,Erin.10Toptenreviews.TechmediaNetwork,2013.Web29Sept.2013Path:www.TV.toptenviews.com
Petracca, Michael, and Madeleine Sorapure, eds. Common Culture Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture. Seventh ed. N.p.: Pearson Education, Inc., 2012. 115-26. Print.
The News: The Process Behind the Presentation. ThinkQuest, 27 Dec. 2011. Web. 2 Oct. 2013
Johnson, Eileen. Telephone interview. 1 Oct. 2013