"tv set" or "tv"

What's your context?

A tv set is the physical object
tv can be either the tv set or television.

KekelIs there any difference if I say "tv set" or "tv"??

thanks

"tv" can be used generically or specifically. "tv set" refers to the appliance itself.

Interesting. I don't often hear "tv set" these days.

MrP

I thought TV was always capitalized.
Anybody care to comment?

CJ

I heard the other day I'm going to buy a new tv set

and I wondered what was the difference of tv set and tv...
so now it is oldfashionable to say it?? should it be better to say to buy a new tv, to sound more natural?

TV set doesn't sound old-fashioned or unnatural to me, but I think it's true that most people say just TV.

CJ

Ok, then!
thanks a lot CJ