Saturday 24 August 2013

Television

Points: Development from Radio to color TV — It brings the world   right in our room — Comparison between Radio and TV.

             Radio brought us voice; television has added vision to it. We have already entered into the television era. Formerly, television was in black and white. Now we have color TV. Television was not known before 1923. In 1923 it was the British scientist J. N. Baird who invented television. The first country in the world to start regular commercial television was England. It was in 1936.
             Television is a nice thing. It is a reporter-cum-talking machine at home. When a man is alone, TV can give him real company. The audio-visual effect of TV is tremendous. It it brings us close to the real world outside. On the TV set we can see the actual theatre and film, musical soiree and cricket match, the Prime Minister making a speech, and even the space-man hovering funnily in his space-ship. In recent times TV sets have been installed in villages and community centers. As a result, the agriculturists are hearing a lot of modern farming from the rural programmes of TV.
             TV is far more living than radio. Here news is actually read by a man whom we see. The weather forecast is made with the help of a map. Discussions are held by intellectuals or VIP’s right before our eyes. We are almost thrown into the event we are watching. Its effect is tremendous. With the help of the satellites even far-off programmes can be watched by us. In a country like India, educational and agricultural programmes on TV may be very useful. Like photograph, TV also can be in both black and white and color. There is no denying that color has brought in depth and diversity to TV programmes as it has to cinematic show. The only thing we would wish is that the color and black-and-white TVs were cheaper enough for the broad masses.

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