Television

Television is a convenient source of entertainment, and a comparatively cheap one. People will not have to pay for seats in a movie theater；and let’s face it, movie tickets are still more costly.

Television keeps one informed about current events and updated with the latest development of science and politics. Television, together with the many channels now, cable TV provides,offers an endless series of programs, which are both instructive and entertaining.A lot of television programs introduce people to things they have never thought of before and have never heard of before.

Watching TV is much more entertaining than in the past. For one we have many more channels than in the past and the size of the TVs is just getting bigger and bigger. 10 years ago, you’ll be lucky if your family had a 29 inch color TV that looked like a hideous wooden box. But now, 70 inches plasma or LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) TVs that look no thicker than a dictionary can be easily affordable. And, at the same time, the programs on TV are just getting increasingly entertaining with the cutting edge technologies used in editing. Even the used-to-be-boring commercial breaks are now full of high-tech flavor. Sometimes, I would just wait to see my favorite TV commercials by Adidas, Nike, Pepsi, etc.

Television made many literary masterpieces popular as they are adapted to TV series. And it provides special instructive programs such as language teaching, sewing, painting, cosmetics, etc.

Programs on Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, and the like, popularize science among TV viewers. People all over the world are no longer distant and isolated from each other.

The most distant countries and the strangest customs are brought right into one’s sitting-room.

So in this sense, TV is tearing down national boundaries and cultural barriers and bringing us into a global community of sharing and understanding.

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