It's amazing what we can do without as long as we don't know it exists. People were happy with horses before cars were invented, and people were thrilled to listen to radio programs occasionally before televisions were in every house on the block. And in another 50 years we will look back to laugh at our lives today and wonder how we ever managed without such and such.
Finding entertainment before TV was actually pretty easy, and many people nowadays would thoroughly enjoy a trip back in time to do what our parents or grandparents did on a regular basis. Check out an old black and white movie with Fred Astaire or Cary Grant and see the night clubs, and the dinners, the elegant clothes, and the top entertainers of the day. People were quite happy with this kid of entertainment.
But it all went away with the invention of TV, and soon televisions invaded just about every home in America. Families graduated from listening to 10 minute radio programs to watching 30 minute TV shows.
Radio shows, the popular predecessor of TV, either transferred their format to TV (many of the soap operas started as radio programs), or just stopped broadcasting altogether.
Family calendars now included special shows that everyone wanted to see. "No, Timmy, I can't drive you to Joey's house this afternoon. The Guiding Light is on!"
We have evolved from small round screens in large awkward wooden cabinets, to wafer thin flat screens that are almost as large as movie screens. Connect them to woofers and tweeters and speakers and you have your own surround sound digitally enhanced home theater system boasting an HD 60" plasma panel TV.
With the advent of digital reception, televisions entered a new age. Not only can we watch regular programs, there are now over 1,000 stations to choose from that suit every taste, every fantasy, every hobby and every need possible. Stations that specialize in new movies, old movies, animated movies, or adult movies. Cooking channels that teach you new recipes and shopping channels to help you buy anything you could ever want.
However, with all this technology, life hasn't actually changed all that much. Television is still - after all these years - how we entertain ourselves at home. Add digital reception, DVR players and recorders, woofers, tweeters, HDMI hookups, plasma and LCD screens, remote controls, wireless access, and thousands of channels in multiple languages - everyone is still glued to the TV for one reason or another, even if it's just to listen to music or watch music videos.
Finding entertainment before TV was actually pretty easy, and many people nowadays would thoroughly enjoy a trip back in time to do what our parents or grandparents did on a regular basis. Check out an old black and white movie with Fred Astaire or Cary Grant and see the night clubs, and the dinners, the elegant clothes, and the top entertainers of the day. People were quite happy with this kid of entertainment.
But it all went away with the invention of TV, and soon televisions invaded just about every home in America. Families graduated from listening to 10 minute radio programs to watching 30 minute TV shows.
Radio shows, the popular predecessor of TV, either transferred their format to TV (many of the soap operas started as radio programs), or just stopped broadcasting altogether.
Family calendars now included special shows that everyone wanted to see. "No, Timmy, I can't drive you to Joey's house this afternoon. The Guiding Light is on!"
We have evolved from small round screens in large awkward wooden cabinets, to wafer thin flat screens that are almost as large as movie screens. Connect them to woofers and tweeters and speakers and you have your own surround sound digitally enhanced home theater system boasting an HD 60" plasma panel TV.
With the advent of digital reception, televisions entered a new age. Not only can we watch regular programs, there are now over 1,000 stations to choose from that suit every taste, every fantasy, every hobby and every need possible. Stations that specialize in new movies, old movies, animated movies, or adult movies. Cooking channels that teach you new recipes and shopping channels to help you buy anything you could ever want.
However, with all this technology, life hasn't actually changed all that much. Television is still - after all these years - how we entertain ourselves at home. Add digital reception, DVR players and recorders, woofers, tweeters, HDMI hookups, plasma and LCD screens, remote controls, wireless access, and thousands of channels in multiple languages - everyone is still glued to the TV for one reason or another, even if it's just to listen to music or watch music videos.
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