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Originally Posted by atomicomatic
People dressed up for just about everything, haha.
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I read in one of the posts to this thread that, in TV's early days, some people dressed up to watch TV because they thought the person(s) on the screen could see them. This is ridiculous nonsense, of course, since television was then and is now a one-way medium (receive only). There is no way anyone on TV can see what the viewer is wearing.
Two-way cable hookups, of course, do not allow for this (thank heaven); rather, they are used mostly for on-air polls and the like, where the viewer's responses are entered on a keypad, mounted on a box connected by a cable to the set. I wouldn't be surprised if this too has gone wireless, with the advent of streaming video; the viewer could be watching a program on his or her TV, and also on a tablet. The questions asked on the show would be answered by means of entries on the tablet's keyboard; the tablet would then send the information back to a central point (the TV station) over a WiFi connection, and from there to the network. NBC uses this on some of its nighttime game shows for live viewer responses.