1970s Classic Television On DVD Bring Variety Stars Like Sonny And Cher Back To Fans

Imagine a family, all sitting around the TV, possibly the only TV in the house. Dad is holding the remote control, which everyone refers to as “the clicker.” The remote has only two functions. One of the functions turns the TV off and on. The other changes the channels, all 7 or 8 of them, with a click of a button. Now try to imagine what that family is watching. Are you imagining them watching one of the classic TV shows from the 1970’s? In the 1970s most families had one, maybe two televisions in the house, and the second television was usually stashed away in mom and dad’s room where they could watch the classic shows that the kids couldn’t watch yet like Maude or Soap. The televisions in the house might have even shown the programs in black and white. What kept families glued to these...

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The Awful Truth About Television: The little box that transformed society

Introducing TV Based on how engrained the television is in our society, one might think that it had been around for centuries. With the ubiquitous presence of TV’s in houses, schools, banks, cars, cell phones, and more, people wonder how they ever survived without their daily dose of Oprah and Monday Night Football. Yet, television was not officially introduced to the world until in 1939 at the World’s Fair. At that time, many people did not think that families would have enough time or patience to sit down for long periods in front of a flickering screen. “The average American family hasn’t time for it,” said one commentator. TV ownership explodes World War II stalled the development of television. After the war though, TV sales took off faster than you could say “Hi Ho Silver, Away!”...

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Movies Turned into TV Shows: Good or Bad Idea?

There is a long history of movies that hit the silver screen diving into television sets in the forms of TV shows. Some were met with huge success and longevity, but the majority of them were virtual train wrecks. On the surface it seems like a logically brilliant idea: take a film that audiences adored and extend it into a more digestible, bite-sized version that they could watch every week from the comfort of their homes. But carrying over the success of a movie into the television realm seems to involve a tricky and delicate science that no one seems to know the formulas to. A television series adaptation of the Blade trilogy and the recent news of a live-action Star Wars television series coming to life near the end of this decade beg us to ask whether or not either will succeed. ...

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Satellite Television For Your Computer

Whenever you are online I bet that you can become amazed by the different things that you can find there. The speed and accuracy of the internet connections we all have is really amazing and the networking possibilities have enhanced our lives so much. In our day there is a lot of different information that we need to process and if it is all condensed into one area it is a lot easier for us to grasp and study. So, since we already know how useful our computers and laptops are, then why don't we understand that they can be the center of our lives? We use television to get a lot of our news, entertainment, weather reports, and whatever else we need. But then we use our computer to transmit all of that information to our friends, family, relatives, and coworkers. Does it make since to separate...

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