The influence that television, or more commonly known as TV, had on the society is a disputable factor ever since broadcasting has begun.

However, in spite of the many differences in opinion whether it was positive or negative, one fact all of us are sure of and that is that the way humans communicate and convey information has changed forever ever since the firs TV broadcast in 1930.

What Is The Positive Effects?

Most of the discussions entailing TV as a subject and the effects it have on society, tend to be negative. One significant positive effect that TV broadcasting has brought to our lives is it made information and awareness of events all over the world accessible like never before. Before TV, the only reliable source of information was the printed media. TV came and changed that.

And The Negative Effects?

TV is widely criticised for the pitiable way it has lived up to the initial promise to serve the community. At one stage in the 1960’s it was described as “a mindless occupation and time filler.”

One can not ignore the negative social influence it had on people of all ages. The most interesting complaint arise from the justice system claiming that due to programs such as “CSI” and the various relating programs, members of juries expect the same undoubted physical scientific evidence and disregard the tried and trusted motive, testimony, and lack of alibi are presented beyond reasonable doubt by prosecution, which resulted in criminals acquitted!

Looking at the findings of latest investigations, persons with dissatisfaction in their lives, spend 30% more time in front of the TV than their counterparts.

Today people are blaming web for a lot of things. They say it is like a drug for people and it makes them forget about the real world and move to the digital one. Though, in case they are so angry with the web world they also have to be just as angry with the television world. It is also like a drug for people and they replace a lot of good and real things with television. It is the cheapest kind of entertainment and there are a lot of those people that prefer spend their days and nights watching TV. They could go walking and they could meet their friends and have a great time together, though they stay at home and watching TV. They grow possessed with television and they never turn it off. So, tell me why blaming everything on web if there is a television that is of the same danger for people? Television is the same addiction common for people of this modern world we have and there are no people one can talk to in the TV-set, unlike the web. At least web provides people with new friends and interlocutors. But television provides people with nothing but poor sight.

Whether you have or not favorite book and favorite writer there is still at least one book you have read. People like reading books because it is like you are eye to eye with all those characters and immersed in the world of those events. Though, reading takes a lot of time of people and some people have no time for reading. That is why I guess people made up their minds about filming and screening and so on. They can show people everything folks wanted to read. It is television that can show us everything we can’t read about because we have no time for reading. Though, television and movies have one main goal and that goal is entertainment. And that is why all those screenings and filming leave much to be desired. People emphasize action and spectacular stuff on the coast of idea of the book. That is why I would never suggest one to watch the movie instead of reading a book. Those movies people watch are movies created in order to help people kill their time and in order to get an entertainment, but the idea of a book is of way different kind.  

Today, Television (TV) is one of the most widely used technologies for telecommunication. TV sets were commercially available from late 1930’s. Since then, they have evolved so much that I one can only imagine the future of this technology. The first ever broadcast happened in 1928 when BEL Labs transmitted via television from Washington, DC to New York with a mere 16 frames per minute. The clarity was just enough to identify a human face with viewing lenses as big as 60 by 75 cm. Today, with the introduction of LCD screens, Plasma technology, HD the resolution levels are as high as 1080p. Here is a comparison of different TV sets and their pros and cons. The most primitive and the most common type of TV is CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) TV. They are very economical but very bulky to carry around. Lately, these are replaced by the flat panel TV or LCD’s. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) TV’s are very popular right now. With the sleek design and amazing picture display, they are the obvious choice. You can hang it on the wall like a painting. They are expensive and have a delay time when you’re changing the channels. Plasma TV’s are suppose to superior to the LCD’s when it comes to display and picture quality. They also do not have any delay time, but very expensive. OLED’s are the next generation television sets. Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays do not need a backlight unlike the rest of the displays, which means it will be far thinner than a LCD. They consume far less power, so much so that they can be run on a battery. But for now, we will have to wait and watch as to who will win this rat race!

There is simply just too much fuss over TV. TV doesn’t make kids think it’s perfectly acceptable to walk into a school and shoot their classmates any more than it makes a kid learn how to curse. TV is not responsible for parenting errors and it certainly can’t be responsible for deep rooted problems with peers. While there is no denying that TV can be an escape and one that we all turn to from time to time, kids who create fantasy worlds from television are not so heavily influenced by the program but by their misery with their own life. Kids need love, guidance, and freedom of expression. They also need to feel safe.

Kids can recognize right from wrong, even when it is displayed on TV, provided that they have role models and an active parent. It only takes on good parent to raise one good kid. Programming might expose kids to different lifestyles, but a child with a strong parental figure and good role models will choose the right path over one that they developed from television. We are always looking for someone or something to blame when things happen that we don’t understand. Focusing on the effects of TV and video games doesn’t bring the wrongs of the world into better focus. It takes away from a parent’s responsibility and alleviates the adult role from having to make tough decisions regarding the youths in the world. It is parental negligence that offers a child a way out, not a TV program.

Television was one of the greatest inventions of the XX century and is still very popular now, although has turned to some new forms like internet TV. It’s a chance to have the whole world at your feet, before your eyes. You can see what’s new in the world, know something about kangaroos in Australia, see the greatest performance of Hamlet ever and check how cute you are in a new quiz just sitting on your couch. But along with the pros, there are a lot of cons.
First and the greatest is the TV way of life, when you come home from work, watch TV, fall asleep in front of the TV set, watch morning news and go to work again. Being couch potato is extremely unhealthy and useless. You’d better talk to your relatives and friends and take part in some event than just watch a talk-show and news.
Second is that you start to treat life like you are just a consumer. People who watch a lot of TV behave as they were spectators, users, but not participants in life. They are no more able to create anything on their own - they are given thoughts, ideas, art for free. They just accept what they are given.
More and more young people now refuse to watch TV and start to live the real life’. However, its place is often taken by Internet surfing and drugs. But it’s another problem.
What do you think of television?

This article will be considered factors that affect the mental and physical condition of children when watching television, as well as the available technical means to restrict the TV viewing of children in the absence of adults. This variety of built-in functions of televisions, for example, «Protection of Children» or «Parental lock», as well as external electronic devices, completely blocking the TV set by parents in the hours and days a week.
The influence of television on child development
Doctors believe that, ideally, a TV and computer should have a role in the life of the child only after the end of a willed and emotional development, it is not until 13-15 years of age. The uncontrolled passion of an earlier age can be harmful, as follows:
The slowdown in physical development
After carefully looking at one point, a child is unnatural tension of stillness, which is later compensated by the state of unnatural excitation. Children, after watching TV can not deal with anything specific, prone to aggression, disordered defuse accumulated unspent and activity, are in a bad mood or behave defiantly.
The deterioration of Television viewing does not encourage the development of the eye, as it does not provide them with a natural activity, as occurs with activity. Vision begins to correctly perceive the subtle nuances of color and spatial objects.