Sentences with phrase «old television sets»

In Miles and Aimee's workshop, old television sets, VCRs, suitcases and reclaimed wood become beds and food bowls.

But how effective will these companies be in collecting e-waste in outlying rural areas, where electronic appliance purchase subsidies under the economic stimulus package are creating a huge turnover (and pile up) of old television sets are other electronic products.

Growing up in Wales, during the 1980s, he sang in a choir, while his teenage years saw him experimenting with free - sound improvisation, using analogue radios or old television sets to generate material that could then be sampled and mixed in real time to create a soundscape dense with accident.

Sewing machines, old television sets, and telephone boxes become peripherals in experimental games that investigate new concepts.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week fined electronics recycler Jet Ocean Technology of Chino, Calif., just over $ 10,000 for illegally exporting cathode - ray tubes from old television sets to China.

and not as overwhelming as old television sets used to be, people tend to leave them as they are.

The only regulation that Kyle could point to is an EPA rule requiring exporters to notify the agency before sending out cathode ray tubes, such as the ones contained in many older television sets.

So older television sets, which show fewer frames per second than modern televisions, would appear to a dog to be flickering like a 1920s movie.

An old television set spluttered into action to show Breshnev giving a speech at the Kremlin, to which we were obliged to clap our support.

To illustrate the difference between the two types of policies, suppose, for example, a fire destroys a 10 - year - old television set in your living room.

With actual cash value coverage, you get only what you would expect to pay for a six - year - old television set.

But the nested bezels (yep, there are two separate display borders here) also give Pebble Time a very low screen - to - body ratio that makes it seem quite antiquated, like an old television set.

Not exact matches

In the corner opposite the tree sat the television set, an old black - and - white one in a wooden cabinet.

Other companies, such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett - Packard have similar programs, and Samsung is set to launch a free take - back program for all their electronic products, including old televisions, on October 1.

On July 20, 1969, peeking through her fingers at the images on her family's black - and - white television set, 8 - year - old Bowman, her sister and mother watched astronaut Neil Armstrong land on the moon.

It is wider than it is tall, and it is packed with an incredible amount of information about the old MGM studio in Culver City, complete with a list of what films and television shows were shot on which backlot sets.

One afternoon, when I was 15 years old — a precocious cinephile — I saw Otto Preminger's «Anatomy of a Murder» (1959) for the first time, on a humble, domestic, black - and - white television set.

It's the latest entry in Hollywood's long history of television and film set in the Old West.

There's also that vintage feel with the old cars, radios, and television sets.

Elisa envisions her life as a Hollywood musical, tap dancing to mimic old movies on her television set, and freely masturbating in her bathtub as an egg timer ticks away.

One scene dominated by a talking head transmitted through an old - fashioned television set made me remember David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983) and gave me the same disorientated, creepy feeling.

So we laugh when they blatantly walk into an old folks home and steal the television set to score money for heroin.

While the show won't launch until November 24th — shockingly convenient for parents who want to reclaim their television sets in time to watch Thanksgiving week football coverage — consumers are already eagerly anticipating the ability to put Disney - vetted material in their two - to seven - year - olds» hands.

Valerie Torrey, the former star of a cult sci - fi television series, sets off across America with Alex, her precocious 9 - year - old son, stopping to speak to the oddball attendees of various comic conventions along the way.

A recently renovated five roomed Federation stone cottage nestled by an old walnut tree, with open fireplaces, polished floorboards, spacious ensuite with double spa and shower and a cosy bedroom with queen size bed, with television, DVD player and video, Henry's offers high quality luxury country style accommodation in a spectacular Adelaide Hills setting.

A panoply of characters and settings is drawn from sources of popular culture: old movies, television soaps and pulp magazines.

He mentioned that while there are new uses being discovered for the materials within newer televisions, it's the older sets that are currently being recycled and there is «very little of value» within the sets, making the expense of recycling older electronics often higher than the potential profits.

Households that choose to replace their television sets will be adding e-waste to the system but, unless they switch to a much larger flat screen TV, the new television will probably be more energy efficient than the old one.

Or consider this clip from the movie Deconstructing Harry (1997), which caters to an older audience with a very different set of assumptions and standards for lawyers and television ads:

A large, box - style television set reportedly fell off of a bookshelf and onto a 2 - year - old girl.

For example, if your five year old TV is stolen in a break - in at your apartment, with Scottsdale renters insurance ACV protection you would only be reimbursed at a rate consistent with the assessment of the television's depreciated value today, not its original cost or the price it would cost to replace it with a similar new set today.

This means that, instead of depreciating older items, like television sets, the policy compensates you enough money so you can buy another one.

Many television sets and receivers have a plain old headphone jack, but most of them kill the audio to the speakers when a headphone cable is plugged in.

Outside of these edge cases, however, most people should pass over the older Roku models and opt for the $ 50 Roku Streaming Stick (for 1080p televisions) and $ 70 Streaming Stick + (for 4K and 4K HDR sets).

Tapping into these services with an older television requires some form of external set - top box, dongle or game console while most «modern» sets come with the necessary hardware to connect to online services built right in.

When I travel to San Francisco I often stay at a hotel that has old - school Apple TVs attached to every television set as well.