We're kinda used to people showing up from different times so keeping the instructions is the best thing ever!
Television! I'm not sure what the definition of that is meant to be, though. Oh, sometimes people from your part of the world call it telly instead of TV. I don't know that, either.
It's come a long way since the silent films and some things you watch and have no idea why someone went through the effort to make them, but some are really awesome!