...multiple types of televisions (LCD, LED, 3-D) to home theatre products, tablets, and wireless routers. While their main product remains to be their televisions, the variety of products that they now offer are rapidly becoming popular amongst consumers in North America. Although Vizio’s newer products are a huge success, we believe that for now Vizio’s televisions would be the best product to offer in the Australian market. When looking at the high demand for television in the Australia market, it is easy to see why Vizio will not experience many obstacles in the selling of their televisions there. Being the number one media outlet for Australians, televisions are commodities that manufacturers are always competing with one another to try to gain the advantage in. Vizio has gained that advantage in their televisions and have used it to gain the upper hand on the companies in North America. They have recognized the desires of their consumers, and have thus used uncompromised technology to produce a product that is of incredible quality while offering it at a lower price than of competitors. In 2010, Vizio got the award for offering the highest rated LCD high-definition (HD) television. Their current lineup can even offer Australians a greater value than just their low sales price seeing that their efficient LED backlit televisions exceed the current ENERGY STAR 4.1 guidelines by at least 15%. The company offers efficient products such as these backlit televisions, modern and...
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...& Technology History of electronic media The television has become such an integral part of homes in the modern world that it is hard to imagine life without television. The boob tube, as television is also referred to, provides entertainment to people of all ages. Not just for entertainment value, but TV is also a valuable resource for advertising and different kinds of programming. The television as we see it and know it today was not always this way. Let’s take a brief look at the history of television and how it came into being. Timeline of TV History Different experiments by various people, in the field of electricity and radio, led to the development of basic technologies and ideas that laid the foundation for the invention of television. In the late 1800s, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a student in Germany, developed the first ever mechanical module of television. He succeeded in sending images through wires with the help of a rotating metal disk. This technology was called the ‘electric telescope’ that had 18 lines of resolution. Around 1907, two separate inventors, A.A. Campbell-Swinton from England and Russian scientist Boris Rosing, used the cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner system, to create a new television system. From the experiments of Nipkow and Rosing, two types of television systems came into existence: mechanical television and electronic television. Mechanical Television History In 1923, an American inventor called Charles...
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...Running Head: TELEVISION IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND YOUTH 1. Television in American Culture and Youth Today Gwendolyn E. Allen Liberty University Television in American Culture 2. Figure [ 1 ] Home of the Heatons Television directly affects children today in many different ways. Media consumes much of people’s time through television and internet. Television has been a part of Americans lives for many years. When television was young the shows it aired were wholesome and rated G, television was not available constantly, and there were three channels available. Now day’s television can be viewed constantly, many channels are available, and what was once HBO material is now basic cable. Television influences American teens behavior, health, morals, and intelligence. This image is from a website entitled Home of the Heaton’s. The author is unknown but the point of this cartoon is clear. The left image shows a man in the year 1990 with a slender build with a large older model television next to him. The image on the right shows that same man eighteen years later in 2008 with a much heavier build and a new model television next to him. This cartoon is sending the message that television has affected the obesity...
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...In Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death, he discusses the impact that television has on the American culture. Postman talks about how much the American culture hands itself over to the television and he show the ways that it is being done He shows the impact that television has on the written word, education, and the youth in America. Postman explains how the way teaching has changed to make it easier for our youth to understand and how they aren't bettering the curriculum but making it more entertaining. Somehow the television has crept into the school systems of America and is now becoming, sadly, a vital part of the education of our youth. I consider it a huge problem because we are putting the thing that causes our minds to shut down in front of us in school! In what way does it cause our minds to shut down you might ask? At a very young age we are taught that the television is supposed to be used for fun and entertainment, so the first time that something does not catch our interests we change the channel. Postman talks about this and makes mention of the effects a show like "Sesame Street" has on us by saying that there are many things about these kinds of shows that catch our eyes and please us and serve as preparation for entry into a fun-loving culture (142). But in reality it turns out that not all learning is fun and that sometimes effort is required to learn. Postman also says this "Mainly, they will have learned that learning is a...
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...to its tourists. The museum is located in the Columbia, South Carolina downtown area in a large building that holds many historical items and accommodates large groups of people. The museum’s elevator has a capacity that holds about 75 people, which is larger than the average elevator. There are four floors of historical pieces for viewing. The museum exhibits some of South Carolina most tangible and historical collection of the early 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including an area dedicated to the civic war, African American (slavery) and first discovered equipment such as, various communication equipment, audio, television, and electricity. The African American area exhibits some inspiring cultural displays. During my visit to the South Carolina State Museum on Friday, September 9, 2011, my most memorable African America exhibit was the African America Custom Funeral display. The museum displayed a hearse that African American used to carry a coffin for the decease. The black box hearse had a glass view on both sides revealing a wooden box coffin inside. The Americans used horses to pull the hearse as it move through the funeral procession. The black box hearse is very different from the hearse used in today. Today, a station wagon type vehicle carries the coffin instead of the box frame hearse pulled by horses. Figure 1.1 and 1.2 illustrate the black box hearse displayed at the South Carolina State Museum....
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...nearly devoid of any meaningful information. He states that this eventually will lead to a state where the population is too amused by distractions that they don’t realize how powerless they have been made. Postman connects his thesis to media and culture. Postman presents the idea of “The Medium is the Metaphor” (Postman, 3), or “media-metaphor,” basically stating that every medium, whether it be oral speech, newspaper, or television, is a metaphor in the culture, and that...
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...In Marie Winn's "Television: The Plug-In Drug" she argues how the television has had a negative impact on the American family life. Indeed this is correct as the telvision has had many negative impacts on how a family interacts. Not only that, the television has impacted the way the youth socializes through out America. Thus, the television has had a negative impact on Americans all around. The fact that the television became a medium in family homes has had many impacts on a family. Although the television brought families together into one room to be entertained by what was on t.v it seperated them in different ways. One example given in Winn's essay is, "by it domination of the time families spend together, it destroys...
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...of providing digital television entertainment services in the United States. The satellite provided service is also available through its subsidiaries in other parts of the world, such as Brazil, Mexico, and Latin American countries. There are 19.88 million DirecTV customers in the United States and about 11.88 million customers in Latin America. DirecTV has been a successful company reporting revenues of $7.46 billion during the fourth quarter of 2011. Being the top provider of television service, DirecTV possesses a large amount of strengths, but there are also a few elements impacting DirecTV’s competiveness (Directv.com, 2012). Strengths DirecTV gets its television signal via satellite. This allows them to expand their service to out of range markets that other television providers cannot reach. According to DirecTV, its company has 28 million customers in Americas. Additionally, it is the largest supplier in the United States of DTH digital television service and the second largest supplier of multi-channel video programming distribution (MVOD) industry. In 2010, the company did a study that determined 95% of television users in the United States were familiar with the DirecTV brand name. This gives the company a big advantage when attracting new customers. Furthermore, it interests other technological markets to create possibly a partnership with DirecTV (Datamonitor.com, 2011). DirecTV offers from a wide range of different programming but television entertainment is the...
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...examine an aspect of another culture from an insider’s perspective in order to better understand it more. Specifically, I will be examining the American economic culture, contrasted with the introduction of television to rural Fijian villages to show how the economy has almost consumed the culture in America, and that it may not be heathy to be engulfed in a culture that focuses on consumption and driven by the economy. Part I In this section, I will be discussing the state of the economy in America from an etic perspective. Meaning I will take “an outsider's or observer's allegedly ‘objective’ account” (Crapo, 2013, p. 1.1). This will allow me to examine the American economy objectively; even though I will able to pull from my own experiences and knowledge. In the article Body Ritual among the Nacerima by Horace Miner the Nacerima culture is examined from an outsider’s perspective. Miner observes the significance the Nacerima put on their bodies and how that has shaped their routines and practices. These cultural practices have shaped a prospering society; but is much different than what I know from my personal cultural experiences. Miner’s etic perspective allowed me to understand the culture before coming to my own conclusions. The United States of America is ethnically and racially diverse, often referred to...
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...Ali American Studies 260 Section: 0103 30 September 2015 Paper #1: ESPN On September 7, 1979 the sports industry changed television and became a part of American cultural. It was on this day that a sports broadcasting company called ESPN aired their first episode on live television in all of America. ESPN is an American based cable and satellite television channel that focuses on sports related information. The show included live and pre-taped shows of sports highlights and talk shows. The name ESPN came from an acronym standing for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Even though In order to watch ESPN you have to have some sort of cable or satellite, it changed the way we the people view sports because it provides instant sports information at any time and it allows you to watch sporting events on your television, instead of actually being at the game. It was in 1978 when a man named Bill Rasmussen was facing unemployment, until he had a great idea about broadcasting sports through television (ESPN Founder) Eventually Bill founded ESPN and provide America with its first 24-hour sports network in 1979. Surprisingly, it only took Bill 14 months to turn the impossible idea into a reality with plenty of people not believing in bill, thinking that he would fail. But only if they knew that Bill had just changed the way we watch for television forever. The idea came to Bill while he was in a Connecticut traffic jam with his son Scott. The father and the son was discussing...
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...dystopian future described by Huxley in “Brave New World,” and not the world described in Orwell’s “1984.” He does an excellent job proving facts and disturbing anecdotes, but he lacks showing the audience an opposing viewpoint. Despite this he is able to clearly show is agreement, by proving emotion supported by fact. Postman is able to connect with his audience through his credentials. The student feels that Postman shows a dangerous path that American Culture may be on, and is able to provide a warning to those who listen to his speech. Analysis of Neal Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” “What is dangerous about television is not it’s junk. Every culture can absorb a fair amount of junk, and, in any case, we do not judge a culture by its junk but by how it conducts its serious public business. What is happening in America is that television is transforming all serious public business into junk.” (Postman, 1984, p. 2) In his speech, "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman, Columbia University graduate, and one time chair of the Department of Culture and Communication, made the point that American culture is headed for a culture like that described in Adlus Huxley's "Brave New World," and not the culture described in George Orwell's, "1984." He described the world imagined in 1984 as a place where there were no books, and where the people are prisoners to the government that controls them. In contrast, Mr. Postman describes the culture in "Brave New World," by...
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...and a coonskin hat. Hamel presented De Lay with a handcrafted flintlock rifle that he had made for the event with his mentor, Cecil Brooks. The presentation of the reproduction rifle to De Lay is part of a long NRA tradition that began in 1955 when Walt Disney‟s Davy Crockett series first appeared on television. When Charlton Heston received his handcrafted flintlock rifle in 1989, he uttered his famous words, “From my cold dead hands.” President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Dick Cheney also joined the list of those who received facsimile Davy Crockett flintlock rifles from a man dressed in Crockett buckskin attire. This tradition is part of the NRA‟s efforts to represent the gun as a key instrument in the founding of the United States. It secured this ideological representation in part by appropriating the mythology of early American heroes like Davy Crockett. Davy Crockett became emblematic of the gun mythology of early American life. This mythology was synergized by the NRA and popularized through children‟s television to promote a conception of the role of the gun in American cultural history consistent with its political agenda. Through children‟s television, Davy Crockett became an iconic figure for the promotion of the American gun craze. The NRA‟s reliance on the media to support its political agenda is not remarkable considering its strategic goal to speak for a national, majority audience. What...
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...America and Obesity Advanced Composition Devry University Justina Brown America and Obesity In the back of your mind, you might be thinking…how did your body change so quickly? It was like almost overnight. It starts with just being a little overweight to having to buy some more jeans. Facts announced by Dr. Neil Hutcher (2011) “Obesity is a disease that affects 34 percent of adults age 20 and over in the United States, which amounts to more than 72 million people. About 32.2 percent of American men and about 35.5 percent of American women are obese.” Gaining weight drastically is a good sign of obesity. For a person to be considered obese his or her body mass index has to be over 30 or weight is 20 percent or more above normal weight. Researched by the Control Disease Center (2010) mentioned that one-third of U.S adults are obese as of 2010 and rates remain high; “Obesity is common, serious, and costly. In 2009, about 2.4 million more adults were obese than in 2007. This epidemic has affected every part of the United States. In every state, more than 15% of adults are obese, and in nine states, over 30% of adults are obese.” There are many dangers to being obese because it may influence your risk of developing high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, gallbladder disease, age-related macular degeneration and breast cancer, and other types of cancer such as; prostate and colon cancer. Obesity is very common amongst Americans and has been for some...
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...The United States of America is made up of several different races, religions, and ethnicities, as well as men and women of different ages, and sexual orientations. This makes the United States one of the most diverse nations on earth. It is estimated between the years 2010 to 2050 minorities will increase from 36% to 54% of the population. (Schaefer, p. 4, 2012)(p.4). Immigration is the main reason for this estimate. It is estimated that in 2050, 67 million people will be immigrants and another 47 million people will be the children of immigrants. (The "Pew Research Center") (2012). While there are benefits of such a diverse nation, the United States still faces many challenges, because of prejudice and discrimination. With the rising population of immigrants, the population of people living in poverty will also rise. With the rise of people living in poverty, there will also be a rise in crime. The reason for this is, people who live in poverty have less access to high paying jobs are more likely to participate in illegal activities, such as dealing drugs to make money. Minorities and immigrants are statistically paid less than whites, for doing the same jobs. So this is what leads to poverty. The rising crime rate among minorities and immigrants also leads to the separation of families. Many children in poverty ridden neighborhoods are raised by single parents. The rising number of crimes in these neighborhoods leads to more parents, mostly men put in prison...
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