- published: 10 Aug 2014
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A television set ( also called a television, TV set, or TV) is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television. Television sets became a popular consumer product after the Second World War, using vacuum tubes and cathode ray tube displays. The addition of color to broadcast television after 1953 further increased the popularity of television sets, and an outdoor antenna became a common feature of suburban homes. The ubiquitous television set became the display device for the first generation of home computers.
Modern television sets incorporate liquid-crystal flat-screen displays, solid-state circuits, microprocessor controls and can interface with a variety of video signal sources, allowing the user to view broadcast and subscription cable TV signals or Satellite television, recorded material on DVD disks or VHS tape, or less common devices such as home security systems, and even over-the-air broadcasts received through an indoor or outdoor antenna.
Actors: Tomas Liska (actor), Brian Caspe (actor), Brian Caspe (actor), Daniel Wirtberg (actor), Michael Baltazar (miscellaneous crew), William T. Iversen (writer), William T. Iversen (director), William T. Iversen (producer), Pavel Kocí (actor), Bill Appleman (actor), Ladislav Zelezný (composer), Bill Appleman (editor), Petra Horackova (miscellaneous crew), Ales Killian (composer), Ove Helleren (actor),
Plot: As his job as a line drawer at LINE corp. and his peculiar routine suggest, Jack has a fragile equilibrium that he hopes will sustain him until his early death from black lung. But what happens when new, terribly disturbing elements come crashing through Jack's obsessively and compulsively controlled Universe? Will his bottle and battery collecting and his incessant smoking fail him now when he needs his constructions the most, or will they be of avail against the disconcerting forces? Especially when they start to come through the only source of comfort in his dark, dreary life: his TV. That world can only become more and more unstable, building up towards a paranoid schizophrenic threshold until something has to give...
Keywords: end-of-the-world, nine-to-five, television-addiction