 "If
it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by
candlelight." My very first tv
memory consists
of sitting in front of the tv set on the living room carpet in my
Maternal
Grandparents' apartment staring at something that must have been quite
unusual to me at the time (either THAT or
I was an extremely weird kid!) The
amazing invention of the television set (or tv set as it is more
commonly
known) allows us to experience an almost "right there" feeling of
actually
being able to see and/or hear the miraculous world around us without
ever
leaving the room that we are in. Seeing
how rapidly things are moving in this field, Chris and
I find ourselves wondering when we will be able to taste and smell what
we see on tv.
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...On
the screen were all sorts of interesting lines and shapes, accompanied
by the strangest assortment of monotonic sounds I had ever heard!
Although it DID
seem
to go on forever, there must have been SOMETHING
that
was fascinating to my three-year-old mind, because to hear my Grandmother
Sarah tell it, more often than not, she
would
find her little "darling" sitting right there in front of that early
morning
test pattern whenever she would get up at 5:00 AM to begin her
day... 
Learning about this world grows more exciting every day as our
technology
continues to bring us even CLOSER
to achieving this "right there" feeling. Case in point...one day,
my boyfriend Chris and
I walked into one of our local electronics stores and we noticed a
fairly
large crowd standing in front of a tv set. As we later found out, this
was no ORDINARY
tv set, but was something that was called, "High Definition
Television."
As we stood there viewing the motion on the screen, our eyes nearly
popped
out of our heads in awe, for never before had we seen such amazing
clarity
and realism portrayed upon a television set. We looked at each other
and
as if one thought, our eyes conveyed, "YES!!!
WE HAVE TO HAVE ONE SOMEDAY!!!"