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Television is one of the most widely used electronic device and you are most likely to find at least one television set in a house. Television gained popularity among people because of its features and benefits. It has changed our lives in many ways and now, it has become a part of life of a number of people throughout the world. To some extent, it has made our world a completely different place. However, a number of people somehow believe that television is not beneficial and they even consider it as an idiot box but many people believe that it is beneficial. So, it mainly depends on how an individual uses television. Some of the benefits of television: With the help of television, it is possible to watch the latest news conveniently. Watching news is much more convenient than reading a newspaper. Also, news is shown at regular intervals on a news channel whereas newspapers are usually delivered only in the morning. In addition to this, several news channels are now available that are broadcast in order to provide the latest news from all parts of the world. Television is mainly used for entertainment purpose as several channels are available which broadcast entertaining daily shows, movies, music videos and more. While having a break from the work, an individual can see entertaining programs in order to relieve himself from the tension. At the end of the day, an individual can use television to see entertaining programs while resting. Also, enjoying programs together with the family is also a nice way to spend some quality time with family. It is also possible to connect gaming consoles to a television set so as to enjoy video games. Some of the latest television sets even have some built-in games that can be played with the help of a remote control. An individual is unlikely to get bored with a television set as there are so many options available for channels, games, videos and movies. So, it is possible to use a television set effectively for entertainment purpose. For students, a number of channels are available which provide information on various things and a student can use such programs to increase his knowledge. It is easy to understand facts and grasp things by watching them when compared to picking a book so as to read it. Usually, special programs by researchers are shown which provide in-depth knowledge of a particular subject and the subjects can vary from animals to new technologies, to anything that deserves special attention. With the help of television, it is also possible to watch the recordings of the special events which held at a distant place. In addition to this, it is also possible to watch the events while they are being carried out at some distant location. So, you don’t need to move out of your home in order to enjoy the events as you can easily see them on television while enjoying the comforts of your home. Music shows, sport events, political events are some of the events that are often televised throughout the world. It is also possible to use television to broadcast important messages quickly and easily. A message broadcast with the help of television reaches a number of people quickly as a number of people use television frequently throughout the day.
LCD televisions are now popular in every home. The life of your old-fashioned color television is over and you need to consider for a suitable option from numerous models by different LCD Television manufacturers. They are now a style object, which has taken place among essential objects of desire. They are quite expensive and not everyone can afford buying a LCD television. Even though, the popularity of LCD televisions is increasing day by day.
LCD Televisions are popular due to the extensive features provided by them. They are excellent example of recent advancements in electronics and entertainment field. There are various reasons behind the popularity of these products. LCD Televisions are not only sleek and stylish, and they not only provide a cool and elegant look to the living rooms, but they also posses different advantages over other television technologies. Following are the salient features of an LCD Television:
Easy Viewing – Every flat-panel display televisions like LCDs provide a better viewing experience in comparison with standard CRT television. The pictured produced by LCT televisions are significantly brighter and feature higher contrasts than traditional CRT television resulting better views under most ambient light conditions. In addition, your television viewing experience will be without worries of eyestrain, since LCD television does not flicker the way old-fashioned TVs do.
Excellent Image Quality – Every LCD television provides smooth, colorful, and wide images. This is due to pixel-based technology of LCD televisions. The pictures produced by LCD televisions are composed of several pixels and each pixel has its own transistor electrode, which creates smooth, evenly lit images across the entire surface of the display. This is the reason behind crystal-clear images of LCD televisions.
Mount Facility – This is among the best non-tech feature of an LCD television. You can easily mount your LCD television on the wall of the most suitable area of your living room. There are several LCD Brackets in market specially designed to provide the maximum support to your LCD television. You can also choose an adjustable mount brackets for the best viewing experience. While choosing a mount bracket for LCD Television, always choose the best mountable bracket depending upon the size of television (small/medium/large).
When cable television was invented, a way of getting higher quality television than over-the-air programming could offer seemed long overdue. Cable quickly became popular as viewers realized they could get many more channels than they used to and in a much better quality. Since the inception of cable television, many technological changes have altered the cable industry and some cable television providers have shown themselves to be better able to bring the best of new innovations to their customers. Comcast is one of these cable companies and has long been the leader in television service. Its commitment to expanding technology and bringing customers the most innovative and convenient service has made it extremely popular. Now, not only does the company offer award-winning cable television service, but it also offers its customers broadband Internet access and high quality telephone service. Comcast’s name is synonymous with cable television and, even with its expansion of services, it still offers the best cable service available. This commitment to the highest quality television can be seen in many areas, such as its upgrades of all television programming to the digital format. While analog cable television held many advantages over over-the-air television, its quality cannot compare to the crisp, defined pictures or the CD-quality sound that digital offers. Digital television, being more advanced than analog, also allows Comcast to provide new benefits to its customers. These include an electronic program guide that displays a complete listing of all the shows playing for many hours into the future and parental controls that keep children from watching programming that is too mature for them. These features are especially important now, because Comcast’s programming selection has increased to over 250 channels, making ways to organize the channels especially useful. Comcast has also devoted itself to offering its customers more flexibility in their television viewing than they have ever experienced before. For example, digital video recorders allow viewers to easily record and store television shows, making them perfect for adjusting your television viewing to your needs. DVRs also allow users to pause and replay live television shows, for the optimum level of flexibility. Comcast also offers its customers the convenience of ON DEMAND Pay Per View. ON DEMAND allows the viewer to have access to a movie for a set amount of time and to watch the movie whenever and however many times he or she wants during that time. It is even possible to rewind or pause the movies, making ON DEMAND as flexible as a video store rental but as convenient as regular Pay Per View. Though Comcast has been upgrading its cable television offerings, it also has been expanding into other telecommunications needs to bring even better service to its customers. Cable-based broadband Internet is one of these services and offers a way to get much faster Internet access than dial-up (almost 100 times faster) though the same company that provides your television service. Comcast’s broadband Internet service allows you to access games, music, video, and even full-length movies without having a long wait for the downloads. Comcast even provides service like firewalls and anti-virus software to keep you safe while surfing the Internet. Comcast also offer telephone service that, for most people, is a better value than traditional service. Within the regular calling plan, features like voice mail, call waiting, and caller ID are included, as is unlimited local and long distance service. Even international calls are discounted with this phone service. Comcast’s upgrades to its television service as well as its forays into other telecommunications needs offer customers a convenient and affordable way to get extremely high quality service.
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Watching Television with family: A Sociological Analysis(with respect to India)Explanation of Media With the passage of time media has become the base of our society. It had been helping us by providing useful information relating to politics, soaps, movies day to day life affairs, tragedies, historical materials, geographical knowledge, temperature of places , notification about events, synopsis of share market etc. It had been providing us information of the above mentioned types through the medium of T. V, newspapers, internet spontaneously without any break, In the last 50 years we had seen that the media influence has grown exponentially with the advance of technology, first there was the telegraph, then the radio, the newspaper, magazines, television and now the internet. Then we must that we live in a society that depends on information and communication to keep moving in the right direction and do our daily activities like work, entertainment, health care, education, personal relationships, traveling and anything else that we have to do. A common person in the city usually wakes up checks the T. V news or newspaper, goes to work, makes a few phone calls, eats with their family when possible and makes his decisions based on the information that he has either from their co workers, news, T. V, friends, family, financial reports, etc. What we need to be aware is that most of our decisions, beliefs and values are based on what we know for a fact, our assumptions and our own experience. In our work we usually know what we have to do based on our experience and studies, however on our daily lives we rely on the media to get the current news and facts about what is important and what we should be aware of. We have put our trust on the media as an authority to give us news, entertainment and education. However, the influence of mass media on our kids, teenagers and society is so big that we should know how it really works. But in the past and now also T. V is one of the medium which had been accepted the most in general public as a source of media. Evolution of Television The word T. V had came from the full meaning television. The first demonstration of T. V was invented by John Logie Baird in Hastings, England in 1923. But the first concept of the T. V was a sketch done by a 14-year-old farm boy named Philo T. Farnsworth in 1922. On September 7, 1927, he finally created a television system that could not only display, but transmit signals between separate rooms. But the actual evolution of television can be observed from the fossils found in American garbage dumps clearly show the evolution of the radio into the television set. Layers of fossil garbage from the WWI era (10 million years ago) contain fragments of radios that use vacuum tubes. The first televisions appear in the WWII layer (8 million years ago) that lies immediately above the WWI layer. The components in these early television sets are nearly identical with those in the WWI radios, so the radio clearly evolved into the television. Both the radio and television show signs of further evolution, with transistors replacing tubes in later models. Radios evolved into televisions through a process of random mutations and natural selection , Over a period of 2 million years, the radio gradually evolved into a television set. Although the transitional forms have never been discovered, but after a detail analysis it was found that One day, on a whim, a worker decided to add a picture tube to the radio. The picture tube didn’t actually do anything, because there weren’t any horizontal or vertical deflection circuits yet, but the little white dot in the center of the screen impressed the inspector so much that he changed the plans so that all future radios would have picture tubes. Some years later, another worker added deflection circuitry to make the little dot move across the screen from left to right and top to bottom. Since this was much more fun to look at, it was incorporated into the plans. Of course it cost more to build radios this way, but for some reason the moving light spot added some survival benefit in the electronics market. Since consumers would not buy a radio without a moving dot, all competing radios were built this way. And at exactly the same time, somebody at a radio station decided to hook a camera up to the transmitter, instead of a microphone, just to see what would happen. The image was broadcast from the radio station to the television set, and the broadcast industry was born and like this evolution of television takes place. Relationship of T. V With Family In The Early Days: After the evolution of T. V we had seen that in the earlier days the scope of television was not so wide because one of the reason was that at that time most of the families does not get the chance of buying T. V because of high installation charges , and another reason was that after having install also by some families then also we get to see that the channels in T. V was not so vast , as there were only one or two channels which family members usually see together ,and at that time the programmes in T. V was basically no “A GRADED” soaps, movies, but there was cultural shows like dance show like Odissi ,baratnatyam, kucipuddi , and then there was shows like “chandrakanta , bikram betal , Mahabharata , Ramayana , yeh mera circus hai , ardhangini , jai hanuman, DD news” and also movies which composed of family relations and so these type of serials and movies was basically watch by all ( grand parents , father , mother, children ) and by watching these kinds of things most of the families members had not suffered like this days but had gained knowledge about our history and culture which had helped them to follow the social norms, behavior, values of the society and by following these things family members mainly the young members had learned certain things like how to give respect to elders, , how to talked with elders , then they have also learned how to give respect to teachers in school and as at that time there was no stuffs like violence ,pornography shown on T. V so the family members were not badly effect like this days happening . Many well known researchers had found that at the early period as the scope of T. V was very much less so the impact of the T. V was very less but its impact was mostly on welfare of family by providing them useful information about their necessity like news, sports, religious information ,cultural programmes , education knowledge based programmes , and musical shows and programmesRelationship of T. V With Family In The Present Days:In the earlier period we have seen that the scope and relationship of T. V with family was not so large but now with the passage of time it was seen that the cost of T. V have reduced a lot and therefore a home without a television was not found anymore. And now with the introduction of cable lines and dish TV , the scope of T. V had widen itself very much , and therefore through the T. V the family members can see different types of channels like religious channel, adventures channel, sports channel , music channel, history channel , movie channel , news channel , information channel and cartoon channel and so the family members can see the channel whatever they like to see . and also we had taken a note that these days most of the people are devoting most of their time in T. V , like the young ones are devoting their time on cartoon channels and the teenagers are devoting their time on fashion channels ,music channels and video songs channels and also we had taken a note that the elders members in the families are devoting their time in daily soaps like “kyunki shaas bhi kabhi bahu thi , kasauti zindagi ki , left right left , kkusum , heena , office office , ek larki mahole me rahne oli , kahani ghar ghar ki and kahi kisi roz” and by seeing these things the elder family members are seeing and learning the trend from the T. V and copying and using these trends as their own lifestyle . we had also taken a note that with the introduction of new channel like sony , star plus , zee t. v family members are influencing day by day , at first we used to see that family members usually see the T. V together but nowadays the family members are seeing television ingroups and also in separate rooms because in order not to see those kinds of stuffs with elders , now a days the relationship of television had gone so vast that pornography are wide been seen in television and which results in destruction of memory of the family members and as result they cannot control themselves and causing them to rape women and girls and so we can hold T. V as one of the culprits for rape . We had also seen that lots of families are being breaking up to smaller families from the joint families by seeing television soaps , and we had seen also that lots of children are not scoring well in exams because most of the time these children are making a bond relationship with T. V channels cartoons and we had also seen these days teenagers are behaving very badly with the elders ones by copying the behavior made by dramatizing in T. V . We had also seen that the children used to gets their eyes badly effect by seeing T. V for longer hours . Then we had also seen that grand parents are not being served well by the house wives because due to immense relationship with the T. V. they forgot to serve the grant parents. Then in the present days we had also seen that the relationship of T. V had got so broaden up with the family members that each and every offices are keeping T. V in their blocks . Then we had also taken a note that the advertisement agency are putting their advertisement on T. V and through this the family members are getting information about latest trends, latest products, and making a change in family relationship by those products . Then we had also seen that by watching the daily soaps in T. V , the relationship with T. V gets so developed that the family members sometimes felt to cry by watching the work of the dramatician in T. V soaps and also sometimes they became very harsh by seeing the creature like behavior made by the dramaticians in T. V. Relationship of T. V In High Class Society: We had also observed that the relationship of family with T. V also varies from class to class , we had seen that in high class families the relationship was much more broader than in middle class families , here the scope of T. V was so much that the each rooms here are composed with T. V and then each family members are having different tastes for which they are following different channels like the elder ones are mostly busy with share market information, market turnover information mainly with the fall and rise in prices and also the elder female members by seeing T. V gets about market information and therefore they go to market for shopping daily for following the new trends in the world . Then we had also found that in these class party is mainly a part for their living and so all the family members always keep a watch in the T. V for upcoming parties and events. Then we had also found that children in these class are being mostly neglected by their elders because they are mostly busy in their work and so these children make a good relationship with the T. V and devote most of their time on . TV mainly on cartoons , pornography films and which in return pushed them to become a social evil for th society and also cause a bad effect for their studies. Relationship of T. V In Middle / Low Class Society: Here in these society the relationship and scope of T. V was not wider as comparison to the high class society , as the number of T. V was not so much in these class , and so we can see the family members usually see the T. V in common and the privacy of seeing the T. V easily not found in these class, here we can also found that due to the low income of the family members , usually they don’t get chance of buying things even though they follow the T. V and so we can see influence by T. V in these class is not good. Here due to low number of T. V in these class the children usually not get the chance of seeing the cartoons, pornography films separately so the relationship does not get so much developed as it developed in the above mentioned society , so the damaged caused by the T. V on the children is not there and so there is no influence over the studies of the children here. Positive Gains Derived From T. V : Though in the present days the relationship of television with the family had been vast and created lots of problems in present day life of the families still it had helped and gave the families in many ways and they are as follows : 1. by making the relationship with T. V the family members like the women’s can learn the process of making new food dishes which they can prefer for their lunch ,breakfast and dinner. 2. by making relationship with T. V the family members can easily tour the world . 3. by making relationship with T. V the children in the families can learnt lots of things , which in return can help them for their general knowledge studies and can also helped to participate in debates, and can also helped them to make their article . 4. by making relationship with T. V the family members can see live cricket matches by sitting in home through T. V 5. by making relationship with T. V the family members can see live operation in hospital through T. V. 6. by making relationship with T. V the family members can advertise on it and can derive gains for their business . 7. by making relationship with T. V the family members can obtain share market information. 8. by making relationship with T. V the family members can participate in competition on going topics and hence can achieve awards in respective fields shown on T. V. 9. by making relationship with T. V the family members can hear and see news from the whole globe through the medium of media. 10. by making relationship with T. V the family members can make themselves aware of the dates of polio vaccines and also the desired place at which the vaccination programmes will held. Major Impacts of T. V: 1. Impact on Kids Television is one of the most prevalent media influences in kids’ lives. According to Kids’ Take on Media, a survey conducted in 2003 by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, watching TV is a daily pastime for 75 percent of Canadian children, both boys and girls from Grade 3 to Grade 10, then how much impact TV has on children depends on many factors like : how much they watch, their age and personality, whether they watch alone or with adults, and whether their parents talk with them about what they see on TV. So to minimize the potential negative effects of television, it’s important to understand what the impact of television can be on children. Then over the past two decades, hundreds of studies have examined how violent programming on TV affects children and young people, While a direct “cause and effect” link is difficult to establish, there is a growing consensus that some children may be vulnerable to violent images and messages. Researchers have identified potential responses to media i. e. : Increased fear—also known as the “mean and scary world” syndrome Children, particularly girls, are much more likely than adults to be portrayed as victims of violence on TV, and this can make them more afraid of the world around them. Some of the most violent TV shows are children’s cartoons, in which violence is portrayed as humorous—and realistic consequences of violence are seldom shown. This can be especially true of young children, who are more likely to exhibit aggressive Behaviour after viewing violent TV shows or movies. 2. Impact on health By watching T. V for longer hours most of the family members became the prey for obesity and this obesity pushed them for having various kinds of diseases , reports from newspapers had shown us that most of the heart attacks are causing to the people because of the obesity. 3. Impact of violence By watching T. V for longer hours, mainly the violence part in movies ,most of the family members thereby gets influenced and gets frusteted out and cause violence in home and also in society, like beating of wives, children, killing and hearting the other societies members. 4. Impact of blindness By watching T. V for longer hours , most of the family members mainly the grant parents becomes blind and even the children also become blind by watching cartoons for longer hours5. Impact on brain By watching T. V for longer hours , the concentration power of human being gets destroyed and therefore they cannot concentrate on studies as well as on business matters and on official matters. Conclusion:This article has brought out a total analyze of T. V relationship with family , in the first halves of the article we have seen the definition of media and the evolution of T. V, then in the middle halves of the article we have analyzed and compare the relationship of T. V with family members by throwing lights in the early period and also in the present period and then we have discussed about the positive gains that have been derived from the T. V and then in the lower halves of the article we have focused on the major impacts of T. V and came to concluded that relationship of T. V with family at one side gives families privileges and on the another side it gives the families mostly the bad effects and so for the welfare of family in our society I would recommend that relationship with T. V should be kept in a safe distance from the family by the family members like that relationship that family members used to keep in zoo from animals. Bibliography: • T. B BOTTOMORE, A Guide to Problem and Literature. • C N SHANKAR RAO, Sociology, S. Chand & Company. • CN SHANKAR RAO, Indian Sociology, S. Chand & Company. • RAM AHUJA, Indian society, Rawat Publication. Keywords: watching television, media, pros and cons of TV
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The few weeks ago, I turned my TV on and it wouldn’t come on. The red light in front just kept flashing until it went out and the “Lamp” light came on. Oh great, my spouse had just took off on a military deployment and now I am without TV.
I immediately logged onto my laptop to typewrite my husband, who just insisted we buy a LCD HDTV three years ago. I told him that his “awesome” television is broken and now I have no husband and no TV either.
You have to love current technology because the next thing I know, he wrote back and told me he bought the extended warranty on the Sony HDTV. The extended warranty only lasts 4 years so I knew we were pushing it.
I also knew the paperwork was concealed somewhere with all the rest of the significant papers we had. After shuffling through documents for an hour, I eventually found it in an unopened box from our move. I opened it up and found the date of our purchase, almost 3 months shy of four years. YES! So I called Sony and let them know the HDTV model I have and my purchase code.
They set up a local electronics place to come to my residence, make positive it was the lamp and then exchange it. They even gave me an appointment day and time. I waited around all day for the tech to come to my home the day of the repair but he never showed up.
Do you know how bothersome it is to go from a 52″ HDTV to no high definition 19″ television? It’s quite dissatisfying. I called the electronics Co. and ask them what happened. They gave me another appointment and apologized, which was good, everyone makes mistakes.
Nevertheless, the next appointment never happened either. Then I called again and they said that they just went ahead and ordered the lamp. They said the lamp would arrive in two days. Three days afterward, there was still no lamp.
It wasn’t until virtually 2 weeks later that they finally got to my home with the lamp. The two techs just took off the front access panel to the TV, unscrewed the lamp frame, and replaced it. It took almost five minutes.
I could have certainly ordered the lamp myself and fixed it more than a week ago. I will definitely remember that for the next time my loved high definition television’s bulb goes out.
The few weeks ago, I flipped my TV on and it wouldn’t come on. The red LED in front just kept flashing until it went out and the “Lamp” light came on. Oh great, my husband had just took off on a militaristic deployment and now I am without TV. I quickly logged onto my laptop to contact my spouse, who just insisted we buy a LCD HDTV three years ago.
I told him that his “awesome” television is broken and now I have no hubby and no TV either. You have to love new technology because the next thing I know, he wrote back and told me he bought the extended warranty on the Sony HDTV. The extended warranty only lasts 4 years so I knew we were pushing it. I also knew the paperwork was concealed somewhere with all the rest of the significant documents we had.
After fumbling through documents for an hour, I eventually located it in an unopened box from our move. I opened it up and found the date of purchase, exactly 3 months shy of four years. YES! So I contacted Sony and let them know the HDTV model I have and my purchase number.
They arranged a local electronics store to come to my residence, make certain it was the lamp and then replace it. They even gave me an appointment day and time. I waited around all day for the serviceman to come to my residence the day of the repair but he never showed up. Do you know how annoying it is to go from a 52″ HDTV to no high definition 19″ television? It’s quite dissatisfying.
I called the electronics company and ask them what happened. They gave me another appointment and apologized, which was o. k. , everyone makes mistakes. Still, the next appointment never happened either. Then I called again and they said that they just went ahead and ordered the lamp. They said the lamp would arrive in two days.
Three days later, there was still no lamp. It wasn’t until virtually 2 weeks afterwards that they eventually got to my home with the lamp. The two techs just took off the front access panel to the television, unscrewed the lamp frame, and replaced it.
It took almost five minutes. I could have certainly ordered the lamp myself and fixed it more than a week ago. I will definitely recollect that for the next time my precious high definition TV’s bulb goes out.