TV or not TV

Some people say that it is a bad influence, especially for children; some others say that it is a good tool for entertainment and getting information, but who didn’t spend a Friday night watching a movie when we still couldn’t go out to party?

First was a huge box with knobs for turning on/off, changing channels and volume, and with a no so good black and white image; fortunately, some years later it changed to color and the remote control was invented. Now, after several years, we are able to enjoy of a pretty good quality of image, even in 3D and HD which place you right into the scene or movie you are watching; sound effects that make you feel like you have the cinema in your house, and so on. But without doubts, the most important thing is the information we get from it.

Years ago, we had to wait days or weeks for getting images of an important event that happened in a different country or region, but nowadays we have up dated news every day and we can even watch events in the exactly same moment of happening, a good example of it was the well-known 9/11 incident in the US which in a matter of minutes was worldwide known. We can also learn and entertain ourselves through it thanks to paid TV; there we find channels for everyone: cartoons for little kids, movies and series for spending some free time, documentaries for learning more about a specific topic we are studying, or just to get more knowledge about random things.

In the end, good or bad, and even though sometimes we get more information than what we can catch and understand, truth is that TV is part of our lives and although we complain we can’t live without watching it.