heavenfang | Fifth Star [Voice: Chinese]

Uh... everything okay over there, Tir?

The pictures! The moving, talking pictures!

Oh, that's-... ~~Well, it's not exactly normal.~~

You've probably never seen a television set before, have you?

It's... Uh... how to dumb this down a bit. It's a box with a glass screen, powered by electricity and metal components working behind it to produce a picture. It can pick up a signal, usually through a cable, and the television shows you the moving pictures being sent out by that signal.

This one was a news broadcast. Those are kind of boring.

That's.....

THAT'S AMAZING!

Are their more of these...brawww...broadcasts?

[Taken aback] ...

Uh... maa...

Maybe not in this world. This was the first time I've seen the broken television in our apartment work like... well... it worked. But it shouldn't have. There's little to no electricity in the building to power it. So... it doesn't make that much sense.

Other places? Yeah, I guess. Talk shows, infomercials, soap operas... Lots of different stuff.

Mm...Maybe we could make our own system for it!

Maybe.

If the right parts can be found, but... that can be said for a lot of the stuff around here.

...Heh. You're really getting into this, aren't you?

Are you kidding? This is the most amazing thing I've seen EVER!

[He just laughs. Tir, you're just too much for him!]

All right, all right. If you're really that set on this, then look out for a young girl with bluish-green hair and a knack for mechanics. She's a genius when it comes to this stuff, and a pretty cool friend of mine.

Take a stab at asking her about it sometime, and see what happens.

Miss Bulma? I'll be sure to do just that!

It was a television broadcast... that other guy explained it pretty well already.

I guess we'll have to see if there will be more of these things! It's kind of weird that it was on the televisions, though. You'd think if they wanted to reach people, these communicators would be easier!

To be honest, these machines didn't seem so strange. The Blinking Mirror in my own world was not so different, though without the typewriter attached. Or the audio recorder. These things aren't so strange to me as...well...THAT.

That was AMAZING.

I think the most amazing thing is that it happened even when the television wasn't plugged in. Now that is something else.

... I wonder if they're going to put on any game shows...

Game...show?

Er... it's one of those broadcast things. It's set up so that you're on a set-- where all the recording is done-- and you're... playing some kind of game, usually for a lot of publicity or a lot of prizes. They're kind of fun, but there are some pretty bad ones, and I don't think I want to know what Discedo's idea of 'fun' is.

...That sounds incredible!

You probably have things from your world we'd call incredible, too.

I'm not denying that...I mean, I've seen some marvels of engineering produced by the Dwarves. But these things...this entire WORLD is just so full of wonder to me!

Then that's a good thing, isn't it?

Even as run-down as it is, it's still got some of its shine left.

That would seem to be the key of survival.

Are you talking about the news that was broadcast?

The broadcast itself. I'd never seen such a thing.

No, I haven't really either...though I suppose the cinemas and radio are close enough to it.

...Cinemas? Radio?

Oh, I'm sorry! ...Well, I suppose if you've seen the television, it shouldn't be hard to explain those...

From what I understand, television is like the cinema, except it has sound and is broadcast. For films they have the reel with all the images on a projector, which makes each picture appear on the screen. It does it so quickly that it looks like the pictures are moving!

And radio, well...instead of an image being broadcast, it's just sound. It's more simplistic.

I suppose if there's a way to combine the two, you'd end up with television. I'm not certain though--it's not like I've ever made a radio.

It all sounds so amazing...

What about your world? What is it like?

Well erm....that's a bit complicated. Could you be more specific?

How do you communicate? I suppose, without modern technology-- That's all done in person?

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