Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for December 09, 2019

When i was at that age we had no steaming service.

3 channels,, ABC, CBS, NBC… from 6am to 11pm..

AND…you WALKED over to the 19" black and white television to change to one of the three channels that we got…

The way it is going, you will be paying the same as cable having dozens of streaming services to get everything.

But, then, who needs ‘everything’? When is enough just enough? Seems distraction has become the opiate of the masses – to paraphrase Karl Marx. Deep study, dedication, common sense applications; all seem to have fallen into the closet under the stairs.

The first TV I saw had continuous tuning to change “channels”. No clicking to preset frequencies, just turn the knob until the picture came into view.

When I was his age we only had streams and creeks.

I remember how awesome it was when my folks bought a rotor for the antenna … no more going out and grabbing that frozen pole to turn it by hand when we changed stations.

I have three of those, an antenna and no cable or satellite.

When I was that age, streaming was a urinary problem.

My first streaming service was an antennae attached to a pole strapped to our chimney. 4 sorta-clear channels (CBC plus 3 from US), 4 more that were less so (US PBS, Hamilton, Kitchener, Peterborough, Barrie). When CTV came about in 1960, it blew our minds that there were so many choices.

And as an only child, I was the remote control!