my contributions to wikipedia

Form and content as applied to televisions, and actual TV shows, is an idea which is always changing, much like how form and content itself is always changing. Since television is a relatively new invention compared to many other things which we use today in our everyday lives, the form of a television is still in an infant stage. The TV’s of the past were big, heavy things that were extremely expensive for their time and it was rare for there to be a TV in an ordinary household. If you had a TV in the 1950’s, you were in the minority. Now, if you do not have multiple TV’s in your house, you are in the minority. TV’s are getting bigger as far as the screen is concerned, but they are very thin and many can be hung on a wall like a poster, so all of the dead weight of TV’s of yesteryear is no longer an issue. The form of a TV has rapidly developed over the last 60 years or so and does not seem to be slowing down. The content of TV has developed just as much, if not more, than the form and actual hardware of a television. In the past, the content of TV was minimal. Most televisions only received 6 or 7 channels and most of them dealt with world news and other serious topics. Now, the content is much more elementary with channels that show almost anything which will draw an audience. People nowadays watch TV to be entertained, as opposed to the past where people watched television to be informed. People do still watch TV to be informed, but the percentages are rapidly moving away from information and toward entertainment and recreation. Things like Comcast Digital Cable which offer upwards of 1000 channels allow for almost anything to be aired and make it difficult for a person to not be able to find something desirable.