Why is it called a "Television Set", when you only get one of them?

Question

Its can't be because it is made up of different conponents, as a computer is also and its not called a set. Same goes for stereo,toaster etc.

Answer 1

You needed a set of valves in the earlier models and the namw just stuck. Only a guess.

Typo. name,
DT's

Answer 2

Radios were also called sets,and the same term was use for televisions when they were introduced in 1936, and the name has stuck since.I think it was because in those days they all used valves, the glass ones,long before transistors and semi conductors were invented.A radio had a set of valves to operate it as did a television.More modern electronic equipment has never used valves and so the word set has not been applied to them.

Answer 3

No. I even have watched courses on a television set? of direction there have been cases for the duration of a capability failure, the place I even have for an occasion, watched a sparkling demonstrate, or as you so aptly placed it watched the television set?

Answer 4

I think it comes from the time of Radio sets when TV was in it's infancy. I think it releates to the sets of valves involved but not sure

Answer 5

To refer to the physical apparatus rather than television
differentiation

I watched television last night true

I bought a television last night false

I watched a television set last night false

I bought a television set last night true

Answer 6

It goes back to the old days when radios and tellies worked on valves , so you had to have the right set of valves for it to work !!

Answer 7

Very good question and one that has had me wondering many a time though I still have no idea why they call them sets.

Answer 8

Because we get set-up by the TV license fraudsters!

Answer 9

Well, the people who made TV are stupid bc they watch TV so you can't expect them to make sense.

Answer 10

Like 'Digital' TV has nothing to do with fingering.