television

     

Television is a wiely used telecommunication medium for broadcasting and receiving live, moving greyscale or color images with sound. The term may also be used to refer specifically to a television set, programming or television transmission. The word is derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots, meaning "far sight": Greek tele (τῆλε), far, and Latin vision, sight (from video, vis- to see, or to view in the first person).

Trivia about television

  • The last full 2005 Micropedia article about a person is on the Russian-born man famed as an inventor of this in the 1920s
  • After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, "Commercial use in doubt"
  • Suggestions on what to call this device ranged from farscope to telebaird
  • In 1953 this broadcasting medium was inaugurated in Japan by Nippon Hoso Kyokai or NHK
  • A 1939 college baseball game was the first sports event shown on this medium
  • In 1946 author & chef James Beard became the first to do cooking instruction using this medium
  • FCC chairman Mark Fowler called it "just another appliance...a toaster with pictures"
  • John Mason Brown's famous definition of this is "chewing gum for the eyes"
  • In January 1926 in London, John L. Baird demonstrated this new invention which used a cathode ray tube
  • urbandictionary.com informs us that an "idiot box" is actually one of these electronic devices
  • Ernie Kovacs described it as "a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well done"
  • Fred Allen, 1950:This "is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well done"
  • A primitive 3-D color version of this was demonstrated by John Logie Baird in 1941
  • Gian Carlo Menotti's 1963 opera "Labyrinth" was written for this medium
  • A 1939 editorial:The problem with this is "people must sit and keep their eyes glued... the average American family hasn't time"
  • Merriam-Webster's example of a retronm is "console" (as opposed to LCD or plasma flat-panel) this

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