Cathode Ray
Cathode Ray is the mission where the homeless are fed, given a place to sleep and TV to watch. Cathode Ray is a symbol for the television infiltrating society and becoming a part of the people as O'Blivion desires. Cathode Ray comes from cathode ray tube which was used to create early televisions.
Candles
Max visits Cathode Ray and we see him with Bianca, O'Blivion's daughter and there are candles lit by him. They are a symbol that O'Blivion believes the television is a religion as they are lit in the style of lighting candles within the Catholic church.
Videodrome Set
Max and Nikki sleep together and Max's apartment transforms into the Videodrome set. This is a symbol that what is seen on the television becomes what we experience in our real lives and the danger of what we allow into our eye.
Videodrome
Max finds out that Videodrome was created in order to create reality from the tv, thus reality itself becomes a lesser version than TV. This is a symbol of the manipulative power a television series, network and the corporation that owns them have over people in influencing the way they live their lives.
Spectacular Optical
Spectacular Optical is an eye glasses company that is a front for a NATO weapons manufacturer. This is a symbol that the corporations we see in our everyday lives have the potential to be connected to programs that seek to fulfill their own ideology upon the world rather than serve it as it appears.
