Entertainment

When the average person talks about consumer electronics, TV is what first comes to mind. Television is a very young industry. The first black and white broadcasts started in 1941.Color TV sets were not available at consumer prices until 1964. Cable TV was not widely available in most areas of the united States until the 1980s. Today, the average cable system has more than forty channels to choose from .CNN, MTV, HBO, and the like were not available in the 1960s and only just started in the 1970s,MTS stereo television broadcasts and stereo TV sets have only been available in the 1990s.In Europe and Japan commercial and cable TV has not flourished the way it has in the United States due to regulatory constraints and language barriers. Most countries have fewer than five TV channels.
Consumer electronics in the early 1980s introduced inexpensive home VCRs. The war between Beta and VHS was hot and heavy. Eventually VHS won due to JVC’s aggressive licensing and VHS’s eight-hour capability, The picture quality was poor, and the technology was inferior, but strong marketing won out. Camcorders, another recent innovation, have replaced the 8 mm and super8movie cameras in a very few years. The compact disc (CD) was introduced by philips and Sony in 1981.Today, it’s almost impossible to get a real record (as in LP). Similar changes have occurred in tape recording technology and electronic musical synthesisers.