silverfox103
Senior Member
Thank you Chazmo for bringing up a sore subject. It's always festering and doesn't take much to bring to the top.
I remember somewhere around 1973 or 74, I bought my first TV a 19' Zenith, color of course, for @ $650. Zenith's were the Cadillac of it's day, or so I remember. Are they even around? It had rotary dial, UHF and VHF. Probably got about 12 stations total. No cable in those days and this was in Boston.
Fast forward 9 or 10 years, we moved to NH. We lived between two towns, both of which had cable, we did not. We got 2 stations (and they were fuzzy) 3 when the leaves fell.
Then one day I saw several cable trucks running cable between poles. I had to stop and ask the guys what they were doing. They had to connect the two towns as one was getting a weak signal. I said drop a line to my house, they did. Wasn't too too long we had it all. My kids now had cartoons and I had 24 hour sports, can't get any better than that. Couldn't complain about $8 per month.
A Sunday in Jan 2002, the Patriots made there first Superbowl in the Brady era. My young teenage son hounded me to get another TV "we can't watch the game on a 19 in. TV, that is an embarrassment". I folded like a cheap suit. We headed down to Sam's club and bought the biggest they had, a 32" boxy thing. Boy, was he happy. We got to watch the Superbowl in style. Thank you Jason!
Now 2023, I hate cable. About 5 years ago, I cut it. It probably took me 5 years to work the courage up to do the deed. But not so fast, I have YouTube TV. A lot better than cable, but the price pretty much caught up with cable.
I'm ready to get out the scizzors again. We never watch YouTube TV, why pay for it. We watch YouTube (not to be confused with YouTube TV), Prime, Apple TV, PBS, Hulu, Netflix, NewsON (watch local news anywhere in the US) and Pluto. We pay for some, kids pay for others, or so my wife tells me. We sponge off each other.
Anyone else tormented by cable and TV's?
Tom
I remember somewhere around 1973 or 74, I bought my first TV a 19' Zenith, color of course, for @ $650. Zenith's were the Cadillac of it's day, or so I remember. Are they even around? It had rotary dial, UHF and VHF. Probably got about 12 stations total. No cable in those days and this was in Boston.
Fast forward 9 or 10 years, we moved to NH. We lived between two towns, both of which had cable, we did not. We got 2 stations (and they were fuzzy) 3 when the leaves fell.
Then one day I saw several cable trucks running cable between poles. I had to stop and ask the guys what they were doing. They had to connect the two towns as one was getting a weak signal. I said drop a line to my house, they did. Wasn't too too long we had it all. My kids now had cartoons and I had 24 hour sports, can't get any better than that. Couldn't complain about $8 per month.
A Sunday in Jan 2002, the Patriots made there first Superbowl in the Brady era. My young teenage son hounded me to get another TV "we can't watch the game on a 19 in. TV, that is an embarrassment". I folded like a cheap suit. We headed down to Sam's club and bought the biggest they had, a 32" boxy thing. Boy, was he happy. We got to watch the Superbowl in style. Thank you Jason!
Now 2023, I hate cable. About 5 years ago, I cut it. It probably took me 5 years to work the courage up to do the deed. But not so fast, I have YouTube TV. A lot better than cable, but the price pretty much caught up with cable.
I'm ready to get out the scizzors again. We never watch YouTube TV, why pay for it. We watch YouTube (not to be confused with YouTube TV), Prime, Apple TV, PBS, Hulu, Netflix, NewsON (watch local news anywhere in the US) and Pluto. We pay for some, kids pay for others, or so my wife tells me. We sponge off each other.
Anyone else tormented by cable and TV's?
Tom