Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.
Everyone may not go and buy a ticket to watch a movie, but everyone has a television at home. It definitely has a huge reach and a huge connect with the audience.
Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.
I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.
With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.
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