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Message: [QUOTE="WiseWillie, post: 5340067, member: 13141"] This is a bit of a digression but -- I can remember our first tv when I was a snot-nosed, always-getting-into-trouble kid was a B&W Philco 21" that used rabbit ears on top of the television set. The three main channels - ABC, CBS, NBC - were free but the only ones available through local affiliates and were "on the air" only from 4PM to 11:00 PM after the news, weather and sports (all local, nothing national or international) when they signed off showing the American flag waving in the wind and playing the national anthem. Here's the thing: the entertainment factor for us at that time was as good or better than anything available today. It was a special time for the entire family to sit watching tv shows on the only television in the house. And that Philco wasn't fastened to the wall because it came in a beautiful mahogany box that sat on the floor and weighed over a hundred pounds. Has anything changed? [/QUOTE]