Say goodbye to analogue television :(

Today is a sad day, as we say goodbye to Rabbit Ears. For nearly 100 years analogue television was the standard. Now analogue is considered outdated.

I remember when that was the only way to get television. There was always that kid down the street whose parents had cable. Of course that was back when we had those old slider boxes.

The first TV I had in my bedroom was one I found in a neighbors trash. The neighbor had thrown it away because it had no picture. I checked it out. There was sound, but no picture, so I checked the adjustments. I found that someone had turned the brightness all the way down. There was nothing wrong with the TV at all. So that became my first TV. Of course it was analogue, it was also black and white. It was a TV though, and I could play Nintendo on it, so that was all that mattered.

Up until about one year ago I was watching TV using rabbit ears. My wife and I didn’t watch enough TV to warrant the cost of cable, or satellite TV, so rabbit ears it was. As a matter of fact I recorded episodes of “House” using my old VCR. BigLots was the only place that had VHS tapes!

I think the impact of the switch will be minimal, because of the number of people now using cable or satellite TV. Any of the TV services, which require a converter box, will see no change. So we’ll just have to see what chaos ensues.

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