Picture of our old TV that my brother took in the 1960s. TV used vacuum tubes.
I don't have a TV now, but interested in our changing world.
Another step along the way of change is the great USA TV spectrum conversion where TV stations move to more efficient transmission, bandwidth wise.
It will be interesting to see what the freed up spectrum brings. More portable internet radio, for instance.
Maybe I will look into getting internet radio on my bicycle. Big choice of stations via cellphone technology.
Before, I carried a big AM Antenna booster (big for the bicycle at least, maybe 2 lbs.). This improved radio reception a bit in areas where it was hard to avoid either Rush Limbaugh or country and western music.
In the past, it was interesting to contemplate radio waves traveling long distance across the land to my radio. Now, with internet, one is just plugged into the closest cellphone towers or landlines that bring the world.
I haven't had a TV in years. Here in Bellingham, TV reception is limited without paying extra for cable. Seattle stations are not available in most of this city. Local station isn't that interesting. Canadian channels are OK.
At my childhood home in Pullman, WA., our TV antenna on the roof got stations from Spokane. Also, Pullman plus nearby towns of Moscow and Lewiston in Idaho.
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