By: Chris Campbell

   Imagine a world without television? For many people worldwide, and in developing countries, no one owns a television, and the nearest television is likely miles away. Lucky bastards, or unfortunate few? According to the A.C. Neilson company, ninety-nine percent of households in America own a television. I suspect the one percent that doesn’t, is by choice. Sixty-six percent of American homes have three or more televisions. Guess I’m a minority here, as we have only one. At least only one working, plugged in television. This next statistic, is the one that really gets me. On average the television is on six hours and forty-seven minutes per day in a household. Wow! That’s almost like an entire work day. That’s 250 billion hours of television watched annually by Americans. Probably something like 60 billion hours in commercials alone. Just imagine the kind of things that could be accomplished in 250 billion hours? Staggering isn’t it? Now, if television is not some form of drug addiction, then I don’t know what is.

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 By: Stephanie Foster

    Satellite television has a lot of advantages over cable television. It’s all digital and you often get more digital channels for the price. But it’s not perfect and it won’t be the right choice for everyone. Sometimes cable television will be the right choice.

The big problem everyone thinks about with satellite television relates to the weather. When the weather is particularly bad you can lose all reception, missing your favorite shows. In some areas this is a regular problem, while others will only rarely suffer.

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    Plasma TV’s first entered the United States market towards the end of 1999, and have become commonplace in households today.  Compared to the conventional CRT TV screens, Plasma display devices quickly became recognized for their much improved digital image quality.

Conventional CRT’s use a electron beam to scan the picture from top to bottom at different intervals, which cause the phosphors to light thus creating the image. Unlike convential CRT screens, Plasma screens have a transistor electrode for every single pixel which more evenly lights the image across the entire surface of the display.

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   A plasma television has a flat panel display which consists of two flat panels of glass which contain neon and xenon gases. These generate a plasma discharge which in turn creates phosphors which produces the visible light on the screen.

There are differences between plasma televisions and LCD televisions. The main differences are that plasma televisions are slim; can be mounted on the wall; have larger screens; have greater viewing angles; superior contrast ratio and faster response times. However, plasma televisions are very fragile; they are more expensive and when placed at higher elevations they emit a noticeable humming sound.

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By: Jason Cox

The Sony Corporation, a global powerhouse in the entertainment electronics industry, has become a household name when it comes to television. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, this company is a leading researcher, developer, and manufacturer of semiconductors, electronics, communication products, videos and video games, and information technology for the consumer and professional developer industries. The multinational company is employer to 158,500 people, and it reported consolidated annual sales revenue of $67 billion in 2005. After the development of the worlds most successful transistor radio, the manufacture of the TV became the benchmark of quality TV sets. Lets follow traverse from transistors to liquid crystal.

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 By: Johnny Waymire

Plasma and LCD panels may look similar, but the flat screen and thin profile is where the similarities end. There are a number of significant differences between the two.

Let us understand the meaning of Plasma and LCD Televisions in order to better understand the differences between them.

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 By: Joseph Reed

DirecTV, the #1 Satellite Television provider in the country, first started over 13 years ago.  By the end of its first year, there were 320,000 customers enjoying the entertainment services it provided.  Now, there are over 16 million customers with another one million new customers forecasted to join by the end of the year.  To have such a consistent and growing number of people choosing their Satellite Television services year after year, it is quite clear that DirecTV is a company that will continue to prosper.  However, the competition is fierce and to stay on top they must continue to make great offers to new customers.

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