I was passing though the living room today, on the way from the kitchen with my breakfast when I, once again, noticed the picture on our LG, 70", 4K TV which has upscaleing to make regular HD to "nearly" 4K. Doggone thing is about an inch thick. Always makes me thing of my father. He love his TV.
When and where I grew up, we normally only had one TV station and that depended on which way we pointed the antenna. We could pick NBC or ABC. CBS was always a little "iffy". And, we always needed a "booster". Attach one part to the antenna and the other to the TV. It helped a lot but still we had to pick our station. To change someone (me) had to go to the top of the hill and turn the antenna.
Mostly we just watched NBC. My parents (both) were devoted to "Another World" and "Days of our Lives". Growing up I knew more about Rachel and Russ, Cory, all the other men she married or slept with, than the real people around me. (Well, maybe not the female ones) They were few, far between and mostly boring but that is neither here not there.
I just have to wonder what my dad would have thought. Huge screen, picture quality like looking at a real place and 300 channels. Pretty big change from a 23" black and white with one channel.
Of course that was when we lived in a place with electricity. Then it was zero channels.
I wonder if that is not something which has exacerbated our distancing ourselves from others. We are so consumed by technology we may have forgotten how to be "just people".
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