magic box
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]magic box (plural magic boxes)
- (informal, idiomatic) Television.
- 1963, Scholastic Voice, volume 34, page 14:
- The viewer sits in front of the "magic box," being entertained.
- 2009, Marianne van den Boomen, Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology, page 174:
- A television program is a magic act. […] It was his [Walter Cronkite's] ability to appear in the magic box that gave him the tremendous authority necessary to lay claim to the absolute truth.