"In TVs and Remote Controls, early fluent readers learn about the science, engineering, and technology behind home entertainment such as televisions and remote controls. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn about this important technology. A diagram illustrates parts of a TV, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about TVs and remote controls using...

Introduces readers to the science and engineering that makes televisions possible. Accessible text, helpful diagrams, and a How Does It Work? feature make this book an exciting introduction to understanding technology.

"In today's world, the major source of relief, information and entertainment is the TV. So much so, that it has moved up from its modest position of being just another 'household appliance' to actually determining the power equation in a family. It is easy to identify the hierarchy in the family depending on who controls the remote control. So what happens when the TV realizes this power and begins to take control? What happens when instead of showing...

Features two comedy-horror films from the mid-1980s: TerrorVision and The Video Dead. In TerrorVision, a family receives a new satellite TV system that beams signals from an alien planet. The aliens use the signal to get rid of their garbage, but trouble arrives on Earth when the signal sends a human-eating garbage monster! In The Video Dead, teenagers Jeff and Zoe must avert crisis when their TV starts spewing zombies into the world of the living!...