For a long period of time, movie theaters ruled what the public saw with an iron fist. But the innovation of the first commercial televisions in the 1930's changed how the public interacted with the media. For one fee you could purchase a television and never need to leave your house except for work and food. This meant that people didn't have too go to the theaters every week and fork over more money. Although Hollywood realized great financial possibilities lied in showing films on the TV, they also noticed the major problems it would pose.
Televisions originally had extremely small screens that made it impossible to fit any motion picture onto it. Because of this, many films had to crop their images down and cut out part of the picture. Towards the 1960s and 1970s televisions started catching up with movie pictures sizes but didn't use a widescreen format, causing the edges to be cut off. Widescreen formats have been standardized for movies since the 1930s, but just recently (2000) started airing for televisions. Another technological advancement over time has been the creation of standardized televisions. Like computers the original televisions had parts you could walk into a store and buy to fix your TV. As time went on the parts became more standardized and integrated because of the reduction in price manufacturing and maintenance.
Today's TVs sound so much more like computers then the ones we use. Perhaps as time progresses people will find that television slowly catches up with the cinemas. TVs currently aren't too far behind their technology, maybe they will surpass them in the future.
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