Television

 *Origin, Landscape, Landmarks and Future direction of Television* 

     Television sometimes shortned to tole or telly is a telecommunication medium used for transmiting moving images in monochrome or in color and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set a television show or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news and sports.

        Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s but it world still be several yeara before the new technology would be marketed to consumers. After world war ll, an improved  form of black and white Tv broadcasting became popular in the united kingdom and united states and television sets became commonplace in home business, anf institution. During yhe 1950s  television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid 1960s color broadcasting was introduce in the US and most other developed countries. The availability of multiple types of archived storage media such as Betamsx and VHs tapes,high capacity hard disk drives DVDs, flash drives, high definition Blue ray Discs, and cloud digital video recorders has enabled viewers to watch pre- recorded material such as movies at home on their own time schedule. For many reasons especially the convenience of remote retrieval the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity. Another development was the move from standard definition television to high definition television which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats 1080p 1080i and 720p. Since 2010 with the invention has increased the availability of television programs and movies via the internet through streaming video services such as Netflix, Amazon video, iPlayer and Hulu.

      In 2013, 79% of the world's households owned a television set. The replacement of early bulky high voltage cathode ray tube screen displays with compact energy efficient, flat panel alternative technologies such as LCDs OLED displays and plams displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most Tv sets sold in the 2000s were flast panel, mainly LEDs. Major manufactures announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, Plasma and even flourescent backlit LCDs by the mid 2010s. In the near future LEDs are expected to be gradually replaced by OLEDs. Also major manufactures have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the Mid 2010s. Smart TVs  with integrated internet and web functions became the dominate form of television by the later 2010s.

      Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high powered radio frequency transmitters to broadcasting the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by Coaxial cabel or optical fiber, satellite systems and since the 2000s via the Internet. Until the early 2000s these were transmitted as analogy signals, but a transition to digital television is expected to be completed world wide by the late 2010s. A standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television.

      The Landscape channel is a British television channel which was set up Nick Austin, Co-founder of the Beggars Banquet record label to showcase the classical and instrumental music genres. The channel began airing as on overnight programming block on Sky channel in 1988 and run until 1989. In 1990 Landscape provided channel 4 with 200 hours of morning programming as The Art of Landscape. This resulted with Landscape going in to the UK cable market as a dedicated cable channel in 1991 on windsor Television before expanding in to Europe in 1993.

      On 1 January 2001, it moved to internet connected severe distribution allowing cable television providers to broadcast from local Landscape servers refreshed via the internet, rather than via traditional more expensive satellite distribution. Due to a lack of funding the channel's management was reconstructed between 2003 and 2007 although it continued to broadcast on the Dutch CA westland service.

      The channel returned to Sky as a programming block on friendly TV on 2p October 2003 and the Information TV range of channels in August 2010. The channel features pictures and videos of landscapes with classical background music.

      As of June 21 2020 both the Landscape Tv.com and Landscape HD.com domains are now vp for sale through Heart Internet. It is unsure is the channel has fully closed down.

    Landmark is a Candian current affairs television services which aired on CBc Television in 1970.

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