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Televisions are used by the Combine to broadcast Breencasts and other propaganda into the homes of City 17's Citizens.
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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]
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.
Gallery[edit]
Half-Life 2[edit]
Pre-release[edit]
TV screen with a 1940s test pattern.
Ditto, with NTSC text pattern.
Ditto, with static.
Ditto, with PAL text pattern.
Ditto, with green screen texture.
Ditto, with red screen texture.
The Consul's image for the early Breencast device.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Concept art for a Breencast device on the Trainstation Plaza.
Early Breencast device.
TVs inside the Air Exchange control tower.
Ditto.
Retail[edit]
Citizens looking at incoming Metrocops while a Breencast is broadcast on a TV monitor.
Breencast on a TV monitor.
Various TVs and monitors at Kleiner's Lab.
Vortigaunt operating a television where the G-Man can be seen replacing Breen.
The G-Man seen on a television monitor with a crow on his shoulder in the chapter Anticitizen One.
Half-Life 2: Episode One[edit]
Kleinercast.
Half-Life: Alyx[edit]
Default television model.
Dirty variant.
Weathered variant.
Ditto, back.
Test pattern, with "Please Stand By" text and the CMB logo in the background.
Variant with City 17 logo, reminiscent of the RCA Indian-Head image.
Color bars variant with "City 17 SITREP712-14" text.
Surveillance camera views, reusing the images on Kleiner's television in Half-Life 2.
Ditto.
Showing the "Combine for Safety" propaganda.
Ditto.
Showing the "Human Science" propaganda.
Ditto, an alternate version.
Showing the "Report the Vort" propaganda.
Ditto.
Television set variant.
That variant used by Alyx to contact her father.
Combine propaganda on the hidden TV at the start of the game.
List of appearances[edit]
- Half-Life 2 (First appearance)
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Half-Life: Alyx
