Television is a common feature in everyone’s homes, at one time of the day back in the early 1900’s it would have been seen as a luxuary to have television in the home, today it is considered odd not having a tv within the home.  The first TV’s were launched prior to 1935 and had limited viewing and the picture was quite blurry, and were typically the size of a credit card.  The idea was played with and it is thought that several inventors were involved in the construction of the basic electronic tv which made tv much more appealing.  Television broadcasting came to a stand still throughout World War II.  Once the war was over and done with and people started to work again, it enabled people the chance to buy luxuries such as televisions.

Most people had a television set in their home by the 1950’s – although it was at this stage still black and white.  The BBC were the first channel in Britain to be launched and it was to the BBC that our television license was paid.  In 1967 the first official colour programme was launched on channel two, this is thought to have been Wimbledon.  By the end of the 1970’s most homes in Britain had a colour tv, although many people still did not own their TV and paid a rental company for it, if the rent on the TV wasn’t paid then a box was fitted to the side which accepted coins.  The 1980’s saw people buying multiple tv’s for the house.  Nowadays tv’s have come on to such an extent that most people now have a huge tv in the lounge which has the added luxuary of digital, sky or freeview, enabling the viewer to engage in as much tv as they like, what ever the time of day.

A phase out of the old analog televisions has now begun in England in preparation for the big digital switch over.  The new digital televisions will offer people the chance to view their favourite programmes whatever the time of day, plus the chance to shop on the new advertising channels, which offer bargains on products such as Pearls (Perlen) and Tahiti Pearl (Tahiti Perle).  These channels are called shopping channels and they offer people a chance to buy jewellery at knocked down rates simply by advertising and promoting on air.