Monday, December 03, 2012

Technology

In 1979, my dad won a television as part of a sales promotion. It was one of those bigger TV's with speakers at the bottom and stood about 3' high, maybe 4'. They STILL use that TV every day. Yep, 33 years later, the TV still works like a charm. It got me to thinking about the last time I had a TV go bad. The things are pretty amazing when you think about it; snatching signals from the sky and converting it to a picture. Does anybody REALLY know how these things even work anymore? How many people on the planet could actually build one and know that it's going to work? And what about creating the images that the TV decodes? Guess that's a whole other entry.

Currently I have four TV's in the house and they are all new flat screens. They replaced bulkier TV's that still worked and are currently working for my parents in their house in Naperville and up in Michigan. The technology is just crazy to me and how dependable they are. Granted, I've probably just jinxed my entire family, but after owning probably 8-10 TV's over my life, not one of them has broken down. Way to go TV industry!!

4 comments:

alexis said...

that is actually pretty amazing! Makes you wonder when computers will get to that stage. Or if they ever will - it's a different beast, you interact, it does a lot of stuff.

We have one TV, but we use our laptops most evenings!

Michael Podolny said...

Yes. Makes you wonder why other things can't be made to work so well...like the Bears (hah!)

Bee said...

If I told you once, I told you a hundred times...they explained how tv's work in Charlie and the Chocolate factory...

terri said...

I think the older televisions lasted. I'm not so sure about the newer ones. Mark and I had a t.v. in our bedroom that he had owned since long before we met. It worked forever! But the newer ones have had to be replaced.