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To answer the original question, no, I don't miss the old TV sets. Now, for a lower price you can buy a set that will do much more.

Our first TV, ~1951, was a big square box with just a few knobs. Connected to an antenna on the roof. We lived in a rather narrow valley so picked up only one channel, WSYR out of Syracuse NY. The program selection was quite tame...

I always remember we rented a TV from a company called multi broadcast in the 70s and 80s . Big box back. 3 channels and you had to get up to change channels. Imagine doing that now !! .

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I remember our first colour TV. I was about 6 or so and it was amazing. That day I and my 3 brothers became remote controls for the TV. I'm exaggerating of course although we were handy when the old man got in from work. He always said...

Remember our first set was Rediffusion with the channel changer hard wired to the set and screwed on to the window sill so you had to get up to switch channels. I remember the sets with the stick out pegs which you could pull out and...

The first tv set I remember at home (mid-1960s) had two big knobs at the side just above the speaker grille. You manually tuned the channel to change programmes. '4' on the dial was BBC1, '8' was ITV (Midlands). That was easy to...

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To answer the original question, no, I don't miss the old TV sets. Now, for a lower price you can buy a set that will do much more.

Our first TV, ~1951, was a big square box with just a few knobs. Connected to an antenna on the roof. We lived in a rather narrow valley so picked up only one channel, WSYR out of Syracuse NY. The program selection was quite tame...

To answer the original question, no, I don't miss the old TV sets. Now, for a lower price you can buy a set that will do much more.

That's Not Captain Zero