Erik Fontano
Professor Roundtree
ART 211
10/16/2016
In the 21st century there has
been many new inventions, improvements on past technology, and new forms of old
technology. One of the best ones in recent times has been the introduction of
the affordable “Smart TV.” The Smart TV is the combination of a regular flat
screen TV with an operating system such as Android or Kindle to use
Applications such as Netflix, Spotify, Hulu and the likes. This implementation
has been quite useful to the entertainment industry, movies, TV shows and music
is now easier than ever to access, and to do so in a legal way without
pirating. TV’s in futuristic TV shows are always very interactive and with the
ways everything is changing for Smart TV’s that could very soon become a
reality. Those TV’s show using no devices, just voice or movement to navigate
the television, being able to bring up computer files and other tasks will
probably be an addition in the near future. The screens are also becoming
thinner and eventually will become holographic.
Smart TV’s
currently can play videos, stream music, display photos, access the internet
and satellite, can be plugged into video game consoles, blue ray players,
connect to cell phones and tablets, as well as connect to a computer. The pricing
of these TV’s started off astronomically high, in the thousands but today you
can buy a 32’’ smart television for less than 300$, it is incredible to think
how television, which started off as black and white 8 inch screens that could
only connect via a signal receiver at the top and actual light tubes, turned
into a 32+ inch flat screen, digital screen monitor with 1080-4k resolution and
are basically tiny computers attached to the back.
This invention has a lot of potential and will definitely stick around and eventually replace all other forms of Television. The affordability was always an issue but now with costs of parts being extremely low there is no doubt this device will be taking off in the homes of people everywhere.
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