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| - | '''Television''' (often abbreviated to '''TV''', '''T.V.''', or '''t.v.''', nicknamed '''telly''' in the [[UK]]) is a widely used [[telecommunication]] system for<br /> [[broadcasting]] and receiving [[Film|moving picture]]s and [[sound]] over a distance. The term "television" may also be used to refer specifically to a television set, [[television program|programming]] or television [[Transmission (telecommunications)|transmission]]. The word is derived from mixed [[Latin]] and [[Greek language|Greek]] roots, meaning "far sight": Greek ''τῆλε'' "tele", far, and Latin ''vision'', sight (from ''video, vis-'' to see). | + | '''Television''' (often abbreviated to '''TV''', '''T.V.''', or '''t.v.''', nicknamed '''telly''' in the [[UK]]) is a widely used [[telecommunication]] system for [[broadcasting]] and receiving [[Film|moving picture]]s and [[sound]] over a distance. The term "television" may also be used to refer specifically to a television set, [[television program|programming]] or television [[Transmission (telecommunications)|transmission]]. The word is derived from mixed [[Latin]] and [[Greek language|Greek]] roots, meaning "far sight": Greek ''τῆλε'' "tele", far, and Latin ''vision'', sight (from ''video, vis-'' to see). |
| Since it first became commercially available from the late 1940s, the television set has become a common household communications device in homes and institutions, particularly in the [[first world]], as a source of entertainment and news. Since the 1970s, [[video]] recordings on VCR tapes and later, digital playback systems such as [[DVD]]s, have enabled the television to be used to view recorded movies and other programs.{{GFDL}} | Since it first became commercially available from the late 1940s, the television set has become a common household communications device in homes and institutions, particularly in the [[first world]], as a source of entertainment and news. Since the 1970s, [[video]] recordings on VCR tapes and later, digital playback systems such as [[DVD]]s, have enabled the television to be used to view recorded movies and other programs.{{GFDL}} | ||
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- “Television, the drug of a nation, feeding ignorance and breeding radiation.” --The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, 1992
- “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” --Gil Scott-Heron, 1970
Television (often abbreviated to TV, T.V., or t.v., nicknamed telly in the UK) is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term "television" 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 τῆλε "tele", far, and Latin vision, sight (from video, vis- to see).
Since it first became commercially available from the late 1940s, the television set has become a common household communications device in homes and institutions, particularly in the first world, as a source of entertainment and news. Since the 1970s, video recordings on VCR tapes and later, digital playback systems such as DVDs, have enabled the television to be used to view recorded movies and other programs.
