Television Technology Quotes

Television is not a gimmick.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

I'm not here to say that I want to change the TV industry.

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?'

Roughly 65% of American households owned a video recorder by 1989, when 'The Simpsons' was launched. This meant that fans could watch episodes several times and pause a scene when they had spotted something curious.

TV has changed everything.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Television in America is so elaborate. There are so many remote cranes, and they have all the toys to play with. The directors are really good. They really work with you. So, I'm not really on set thinking, "Oh, my God, this is television. It's very different."

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.

I'm always in awe at how fast television is and how quickly you're called upon to be 100 percent invested in a character with the lines.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

Americans seem to spend more effort in researching the television sets that they buy than in studying their health care alternatives.