Tube City Almanac

July 03, 2007

Station Break

Category: default || By jt3y



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"Gee, Dad, why is the picture so funny looking?"

"Well, son, back in Uncle Jason's day, people used to watch TV that was broadcast through the air, and received with an antenna, not with cable. And sometimes it would get blurry, or there would be what they called 'ghosts' in the picture."

"Didn't the digital signal processing take care of that?"

"No, because they didn't have digital TV."

"Aw, come on."

"It's true. They also had to get up and go to the TV set when they wanted to change the channel."

"Oh, man, I almost believed you. Nice try, dad. Go to the TV ... I guess the TV stations used to go off at night, too."

"Er ... Never mind."






Your Comments are Welcome!

You really could have blown that poor boy’s mind by telling him the choice of channels didn’t even fill up an entire tuner — just 2, 4, 6, 11 and 13 according to old copies of The Daily News.

(I could go one step further and tell him there used to be more daily newspapers than TV stations in some areas, but that might be borderline mental cruelty for the kid.)
does it matter? - July 03, 2007



I refuse to buy cable. I can get somewhere near 12 broadcast stations where I am with rabbit ears (!), and I barely watch even that other than the news.

Just call me ‘Young Fogey’
Steven Swain (URL) - July 04, 2007



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