After reading Jason Couch's post today on old TV commercials, it got me thinking about how far I had come in the ability to watch TV. I still remember going to movies in grade school and watching ads telling us not to support "pay TV."
Paying to watch TV - why that's a little like buying bottles of water. Wait a minute, we do that.
Anyway, I remember getting our first TV, and we got exactly one station. We had those little rabbit ears to improve reception. Oh, and did I mention everything was in black and white?
Then we moved and found out if you had one of those really tall towers with the TV antenna on it (like nearly everyone did back then) that you could maybe (if all the conditions we right) pick up a ghosty signal or two from other towns. We had one of those electric rotor controls on the TV that you could use to reposition the antenna. So to change channels, not only did you have to click through the channels with the manual dial, you had to move the antenna to the appropriate heading for that channel. It became quite an art.
I don't remember getting cable, but it was after we were married. And then this digital stuff - hundreds of channels and some nights still nothing to watch. Go figure.
So we had VHS, then we went to DVR and Tivo - and we have HD also.
Now the TV signal that we grew up on is obsolete.
I wonder what's next in the TV evolution.
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