Television

Does TV educate or stimulate? Or is it a drug or tranquilizer used to control the population? As many people know, we can divide watching TV to situations when it is useful and helpful for us and at times harmful.

 

How do people usually answer the question: “what are you going to do tonight?” or “what are you going to do at the weekend?” some 20 or 30years ago the usual answers used to be “we are going the theatre” or “we are going to the party” or “we are having some friends round”, but now we are very often hear “we are going to stay at home and watch television”. A good serial can keep the whole family in front of the TV for days. Modern TV offers viewers several programmers on different channels. In addition to regular newscasts you see lays and films, operas and balers and watch all kinds of contests, quizzes and sporting events. People also can get a lot of useful information from the education channels.

 

Besides, television gives people unlimited sources of various news and knowledge showing aspects of our lives. The manager from Taiwan TVBS channel Qunsai Li suggested that,” Television can brings you to dream of journey around the world to see many countries with a lots of attractions, I suggest taking your remote control and press an appropriate button. You can watch animals and the greatest monuments; it will take you wherever you want to go. If you have enough money, throw away your TV set after watching and take a plane to visit you want to go. ” He also pointed out, “Television is a powerful medium that communicates with both sight and sound…” Therefore if you dream of journey around the world to see many countries with a lot of attractions; I suggest watching the world travel program is the best choice.

 

Another major advantage is the digital television has appeared, because digital television will provide clear, sharper pictures. The public TV website has issued that, “Digital technology allows public television stations to broadcast programs in much higher resolution and clarity than current analog television. Viewers will be able to receive visually stunning high quality, crystal clear pictures displayed in a wide-screen format”. Beside the ‘Digital Home Magazine’ has issued that “analog TV signals we watch today are made up of 525 interlaced lines, which are subject to screen flickering, ghost-shadows, and blurring. Digital televisions are dramatically different in that they receive signals digitally in the form of zeros and ones, so problems with ghost-shadows and blurring are not factors. Digital signals also produce a higher quality TV picture, displaying crisp, sharp, and vivid images using up to 1080 lines instead of 525 lines.” Additionally, from my personal experience within watching the digital TV at home (when I come back china), I felt watch digital television as in the private cinema; because it can deliver cinema-quality sound and picture and gave me the enjoyable moment.

 

TV brings fun to us, it has music, it’s full of color and up-close and personal. You can share TV viewing at home with family and friends, or you can catch it in a club, sports bar or restaurant. But there are some costs inside of the television.

 

Children who grow up with TV in their bedroom will cause the ‘Lower Test Scores’. The HealthDay Reporter Steven Reinberg pointed out, “if children too much tube time can lower test scores, retard learning and even predict college performance”. According to his report –a child who has a TV in his or her bedroom is likely to have a score that is eight points lower on a mathematics test compared to a child who doesn’t have a TV in the bedroom; and these children also scored lower on the reading and language arts tests. “…Regardless of your intelligence or social background, if you watch a lot of TV during childhood, you are a lot less likely to have a college degree by your mid-20s”, Dr. Robert J. Hancox the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand have pointed out. When there’s TV in the bedroom, parents are less likely to have control over the content and the amount watched; and also unable to know how early or how late the set is on. Hour after hour, day after day, children will be bombarded by sordid, violent images and they get obtain a various programming that glamorizes casual sex, crime, substance abuse, and occultist practices from the television. The TV programs may not to tell us what to think, but it have strong influence people’s mind.

 

Though there are lots of harmful Television programs but TV still plays the most definitely and very important art in people’s life. I can only say that I usually derive beneficial information from this kind of mass media. People can share TV viewing at home with family and friends, or we can catch it in a club, sports bar or restaurants. Television programs really deserve our attention. In the end, I would like to add, that nowadays TV is indispensable.