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I've always thought it was like the set of a play...it is where the television action takes place...on the set. Especially since early TV was all live and on a 'set'
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One of the great mysteries.
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Well, it is a couple of things together. The sound portion is an FM radio of sorts. The visual portion is an AM radio of sorts. They're combined together into a set.
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What's the alternative? A "tv box thingy"?
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Because it turns your brains to jello?....
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Or a pair of jeans ... ?
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The same reason the scissors are scissors whether you have 1 or 5.
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Do you want a pedantic answer? A set is a group or collection of objects or numbers, considered as an entity unto itself. In this case, it is a term from the electronics field denoting a group of distinct components that work together as a whole - the receiver, the speakers, the screen, etc. In fact, radios were called radio sets in the past.
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It actually refers to the "set" of TV fairies that live inside who can morph themselves to look like people. You don't actually think those were images inside that thing did you?
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ITS A CONSPIRACY! (Don't you get a remote as well?)
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That terminology goes back a very long way. You get a TV set because before you used to get a radio set. And you get a radio set because, before radio broadcasting, they were used generally for two-way communications, so you needed a set of transmitter and receiver. You haven't needed that in a long time, but the terminology persists.
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Because you get a free remote control with the television!
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