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Television
General information
Faction
Type

Television

Usage
Used by
  • Citizens
  • Rebels
Game information
Entity
  • func_monitor
  • prop_physics

Televisions are used by the Combine to broadcast Breencasts and other propaganda into the homes of City 17's Citizens.

Overview[edit]

Half-Life 2[edit]

The television is one of the few human devices the Combine recycled for their needs, as with the trains, for instance. The Resistance also uses televisions and other monitors to view CCTV camera footage as well as to communicate, as seen at Shorepoint.

The televisions found in the apartments in the Half-Life 2 chapter Point Insertion can be unplugged, after which they will immediately turn off. Once they are unplugged, their cables disappear.

In the chapter Anticitizen One, the G-Man can be seen on an unplugged television monitor, with eerie music playing in the background.

When turned off, the television reveals an empty body behind the screen. It is either a developer's oversight or a result of the customization made by the Combine to have it work only with their broadcasting technology.

Half-Life 2: Episode One[edit]

When Isaac Kleiner takes over the Breencast broadcast, he can be seen on TV.

Half-Life: Alyx[edit]

At the very start of Alyx, Alyx Vance is seen communicating with her father through a television placed on its side, with other smaller monitors. She also uses television to look at the broadcast of CCTV cameras.

Later in the chapter, on the ground floor of the cat lady building, a television visible only by going into the living room glimpsed from the street with noclip is broadcasting Combine propaganda featuring the phrases "Combine for Safety" as well as vilifying "Human Science" and encouraging Citizens to "Report the Vort".

When televisions are not broadcasting propaganda, they display various test patterns.

Behind the scenes[edit]

The only existing official image of the Get Your Free TVs! tech demo.

Televisions are notably featured in the Get Your Free TVs! technology demonstration created early during Half-Life 2's development.

Concept art for the early Breencast features small TV monitors broadcasting Consul propaganda. This is also present in the WC map pack maps featuring the early Breencast and televisions set in shop windows in early train station maps. The Air Exchange also features televisions.

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Half-Life 2[edit]

Pre-release[edit]

Retail[edit]

Half-Life 2: Episode One[edit]

Half-Life: Alyx[edit]

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