And the instruction book that comes with these new T.V.'s is thicker than a phone book.
Harken back to yesteryear, (Lone Ranger music playing in the background) when all we did was......
Turn on the T.V. and wait 30 seconds for the tubes to warm up. While the tubes are warming up you set up your T.V. tray then put your supper down on it while you got comfortable on the couch. All family members lined up on the couch with their trays in front of them.
The T.V. came alive with brilliant black and white. Oops, it was still 5 minutes to 5 P.M. so we would just see a test pattern. No use GETTING UP ( no remote ) and changing channels....there's only one channel.
At 5 P.M. on the dot a show would start....but first the live commercial. Sometimes they would screw up in the commercial....nothing they could do since it was live, just carry on.
Then of course those who were rich could afford a color T.V. Well the T.V. wasn't really color, they just bought a large colored glass screen thingy that they'd put in front of their black and white T.V. and it would give a colored hue to whatever b & w show was on.
We knew by memory which shows came on which nights and at which time. Never needed a guide.
And were the old T.V.'s better??
HELL NO, they were crap. I prefer my bigscreen with it's complicated operations and encyclopoedic instructions.
