Sunday
Apr022006
Telly History
Sunday, April 2, 2006 at 11:40PM
The telly in the kitchen has failed. It sort of works, but the picture comes and goes, along with the sound, in a way that we are pretty sure is not how the program maker intended. Antiques Roadshow with strobe effects. I think not.
So it was off down to the big shops to get a replacement. Two things struck me. Glass tellys are now so passe. If you want to buy a cheap, glass, TV you are sent into a sort of ghetto area of the store. They put them next to the Video Cassette recorders. Nuff said.
The second thing that struck me was how cheap these things are. When I was a youngster a TV was a pretty substantial investment. Even my first little black and white portable, which allowed me to watch Nationwide and Tomorrows World in glorious greyscale, was such an expense that I had to take out a three month loan to pay for it.
Nowadays a little telly costs around the price of a video game, certainly less than some boxed sets of DVDs. Strange.
Anyhoo, we selected a cheap little number from a company I've not heard too many bad things about and toddled home to plug it in.
So it was off down to the big shops to get a replacement. Two things struck me. Glass tellys are now so passe. If you want to buy a cheap, glass, TV you are sent into a sort of ghetto area of the store. They put them next to the Video Cassette recorders. Nuff said.
The second thing that struck me was how cheap these things are. When I was a youngster a TV was a pretty substantial investment. Even my first little black and white portable, which allowed me to watch Nationwide and Tomorrows World in glorious greyscale, was such an expense that I had to take out a three month loan to pay for it.
Nowadays a little telly costs around the price of a video game, certainly less than some boxed sets of DVDs. Strange.
Anyhoo, we selected a cheap little number from a company I've not heard too many bad things about and toddled home to plug it in.
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