How_The_TV_Works

How The TV Works Television is certainly one of the most influential forces of our time. Through the device called a television or better know as a TV, we are able to receive news, sports, entertainment, information and commercials. The average American spends between two to five hours a day glued to “the Tube” Have you ever wondered what makes TV possible' How is it that dozens or hundreds of channels of full motion video arrive at your house' How does your TV decode the signals to produce a picture' How will digital signals change things' Let me start with a quick fact about the brain. There are two things about your brain that makes TV possible. By understanding these two facts you gain a good bit of insight into why TVs are designed the way they are. 1. If you divide a still image into a collection of small colored dots, your brain will reassemble the dots into a meaningful image. 2. If you divide a moving scene into a sequence of still pictures and show the still images in rapid succession, your brain will reassemble the still images into a single moving scene. Both TV and computer screens (as well as newspaper and magazine photos) tv, signals, radio, television, sound, screen, pictures, picture, brain, beams, dots, colors, color, choose, waves, video, very, two, through, thin, stripes, shadow, pixels, phosphors, mask, just, colored, channel, change, called, cable, antenna, way, tvs, three