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It is amazing where TV has gone where it is going (who knows). There are so many types and sizes now days. We saw an ad for one that is truly the size of an entire wall (the size most of us peons have) that is supposed to come out sometime this year. If you are really rich or have a really high ceiling in a really big room I guess you could call this a truly fantastic media room. However, most of us would not be able to afford it even when it does hit the market. The ultra rich market!!
We had a 32" TV, our very first new one that we bought about six years ago (my husband had been a TV repairman for years and we always had a used TV that someone didn't want to have fixed, so he fixed it and brought it home). It was quite an event to get this new TV and of course it didn't work when we got it home and plugged it in. Pure frustration, because he knew what the problem was right away and because we live in the mountains and it was over an hour to take it back to where we bought it, he called for service. They sent a guy out and because it was exactly what Fred thought it was they said we needed to return it to the store and have them exchange it because it was a defective set. So we took that long trip back to the store, exchanged it, went home and set it up again. This thing weighed a ton.
Well shock of shocks, in December for our Christmas present to ourselves he got a deal on a 42" flat screen, LSD HD TV. WHOA! That is a big sucker, is much thinner than the old 32" and weighs only about half of what the old one did. In 34 years of marriage our 2nd new TV!!!! Yippee!!
A chuckle for you. In February, we had a 3 day power outage and he was having TV withdrawals. He remembered that we had a little B&W battery TV, so he pulled it out so he could watch something (we have satellite regularly) and there was only one channel that came in and he had to hold it on his lap to be able to see anything because it was so small. He practically threw a party when the power came back on and he could watch the Big TV again, with a multitude of channels to choose from.
Well I'll let it go for now, but next time i'll talk about TV add on's, etc.
Enjoy your day!
Friday, April 11, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Not Done With Color TV Yet
Hi again!
I have been busy trying to earn a living. If you want to see what at, check out my new website's www.costaproject.com and www.instant-millionaire.org/1/14126820-invitation-page.aspx
Anyway, we'll try and continue where I left off. Because color TV was so expensive, only 3.1 percent of households in the United States had one as late as 1964. However, NBC announced that their prime time schedule for fall of 1965 would be almost entirely in color and this started the speed up of color programs. By the 1966-67 broadcast season all three networks, NBC, ABC, CBS had full color prime time schedules but the number of color TV's sold didn't out sell black and white until 1972. That was only 36 years ago, which sounds like a long time, but really isn't. That year more than 50% of people that had TV sets had a color set.
Believe it or not Cuba became the second country in the world to introduce color TV broadcasting in 1958. These broadcasts ended in 1959 during the Cuban Revolution and they didn't get it again until 1975.
For more detailed information check out http://en.wikipedia.org for the history of TV.
Color broadcasts in Mexico were authorized in 1963, Canada's started in 1966, Europe seemed to have some technical difficulties and ended up with a system used through most of Western Europe called PAL. The first broadcasts started in July 1967. Italy adopted the PAL system in 1977. Color broadcasts were introduced throughout the rest of the world at different intervals from 1959 on. Some countries continued to have only black and white until the 1980's until they changed over to color.
My grandpa passed away in 1974 and they still had a black and white TV, but boy did he enjoy it. Especially variety shows and Base Ball. He was a huge fan, and for many of us, depending on what our spouses favorite sport is also become fans (of a sort), or become sports widows while our man (or woman) glues themselves to the TV to watch. I know right now the Sacramento Kings are dominating some of my favorite channels and pre-empting some of my shows. Sports has become BIG business for the all of the networks.
A lot of commercials lately have been using black and white and then throwing in a little bit of color to really get your attention. It is all pretty cool, and color TV has grown and evolved and we will continue in the journey of TV and see where it has webbed out, next time.
I am trying really hard to not let you go too long without something new to read and learn and hopefully enjoy.
Later Gater!
I have been busy trying to earn a living. If you want to see what at, check out my new website's www.costaproject.com and www.instant-millionaire.org/1/14126820-invitation-page.aspx
Anyway, we'll try and continue where I left off. Because color TV was so expensive, only 3.1 percent of households in the United States had one as late as 1964. However, NBC announced that their prime time schedule for fall of 1965 would be almost entirely in color and this started the speed up of color programs. By the 1966-67 broadcast season all three networks, NBC, ABC, CBS had full color prime time schedules but the number of color TV's sold didn't out sell black and white until 1972. That was only 36 years ago, which sounds like a long time, but really isn't. That year more than 50% of people that had TV sets had a color set.
Believe it or not Cuba became the second country in the world to introduce color TV broadcasting in 1958. These broadcasts ended in 1959 during the Cuban Revolution and they didn't get it again until 1975.
For more detailed information check out http://en.wikipedia.org for the history of TV.
Color broadcasts in Mexico were authorized in 1963, Canada's started in 1966, Europe seemed to have some technical difficulties and ended up with a system used through most of Western Europe called PAL. The first broadcasts started in July 1967. Italy adopted the PAL system in 1977. Color broadcasts were introduced throughout the rest of the world at different intervals from 1959 on. Some countries continued to have only black and white until the 1980's until they changed over to color.
My grandpa passed away in 1974 and they still had a black and white TV, but boy did he enjoy it. Especially variety shows and Base Ball. He was a huge fan, and for many of us, depending on what our spouses favorite sport is also become fans (of a sort), or become sports widows while our man (or woman) glues themselves to the TV to watch. I know right now the Sacramento Kings are dominating some of my favorite channels and pre-empting some of my shows. Sports has become BIG business for the all of the networks.
A lot of commercials lately have been using black and white and then throwing in a little bit of color to really get your attention. It is all pretty cool, and color TV has grown and evolved and we will continue in the journey of TV and see where it has webbed out, next time.
I am trying really hard to not let you go too long without something new to read and learn and hopefully enjoy.
Later Gater!
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