Over the years, television has developed from a leisure entertainment system into a necessity of everybody’s day to day lives. Television went from black and white, having just three channels, to having thousands of channels in colour, HD, on demand and available to watch from almost anywhere. The 4 ways in which we watch television, through are tv screens are; terrestrial tv, cable tv, satellite tv and digital tv.
Terrestrial television is the basic channels 1,2,3,4 and 5. That come with every television, the signals are broadcast from a terrestrial satellite. There are so many other television platforms that are used now; sky is a popular one, along with, bt vision, virgin media, digital television and free sat.
This provides us with thousands of different channels to watch television. However, this isn’t enough, we then invented ‘on demand’ giving us the chance to catch up on our favourite shows via the internet. Then sky plus, and free sat enable us to record our favourite shows and come back to watch them. However this still isn’t all, our mobiles now allow us to watch television through our phones. With this many channels, the chance to record and the chance to catch up whenever we want you would think this would be enough for everybody. However once we had enough channels, we then enhanced the quality of channels, creating channel 4 HD, BBC HD, giving us the chance to watch certain channels in high definition.
The internet has become one of the most popular ways of viewing television, it gives us the chance to watch a programme we have missed online, via their own personal website for example; BBC I Player, and Channel4 OD. These websites only give us the chance to view programmes a month old, however other websites have clips that the public have uploaded in order for other members of the public to watch and enjoy for free. For example; you tube has many programmes available to watch any time. Other websites allow us to watch films free online before they are out on DVD, such as; www.freemoviesonline.com. The internet allows us to interact in our own time, giving us the chance to watch our programmes when we want to, as well as advertising other programmes for us to watch, and giving us the chance to have a look at other television listings for the week. There is so much to do online, the list is endless. Hundreds of pages on the net have been created and devoted to old television shows such as; Hanna Barbera. These websites provide plot summaries, and still frames of every episode ever made. There are so may official and unofficial websites linked and created about television programmes and characters. These pages give information, news, television publicity, cable and broadcast schedules, contest and competitions and histories about favourite programmes and channels. The Microsoft corporation has obtained stakes in media entertainment and television networks. Microsoft then joined a deal with the black entertainment television network, with the DreamWorks company owned by Speilberg, Katzenburg and Geffen.
Most mobile phones now include internet searching; having the internet on our mobile phones gives us the chance to do everything I’ve mentioned above literally from the palm of our hands. Giving us the chance to watch whatever we want, from wherever in the world.
Most television channels allow us to interact using ‘the red button’ this gives the viewer the chance to actually interact and get involved. By pressing the interactive button it gives us the chance to watch extra programmes, and enter competition, as well as finding out extra information and news.
Video cameras are used for moving imagery, developed and created by the television industry. The BBC were the first to use a video camera. Video cameras are used for two purposes, the first being; for live broadcast, where the image is immediately broadcast to the television screens, with up to a 3 second delay. The second is to have the images saved onto a device; the camcorder would save on to video tape, to enable to be played in a VCR.
Digital cameras are used to take videos or still photographs, digital cameras allow us to be able to view and delete the videos or photographs whenever we like, we are often given the chance to crop and zoom in on already taken footage. Digital cameras are also incorporated into camera phones.
Cameras have developed over the years, therefore making the quality of television and film develop also. Cameras have become much more high tech with a larger mega pixel to the previous, allowing us to watch television on larger screens with better quality. HD cameras are now often used, allowing us to watch television in high definition, and also special cameras that allow us to film a programme of film twice creating a 3D effect.
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