my old TV was made in 2001. (and I believed it to be older than that, until I went and looked just now.) Sure, it works fine, but currently I can only watch blu-ray’s on my computer, which is less old. it’s annoying.
I’ve owned three TVs in my adult life: a little 13-inch my parents got free when they bought a used car six years before, a 25-inch tube TV, and the non-Smart HDTV I picked up shortly after getting my current job. That covers…counts…nearly 30 years.
When you don’t make a lot, you learn how to stretch technology (typing on a Windows 7 desktop)
My dad and his second wife (long story) got me my first flatscreen. I let it gather dust in a closet until the big screen I already had finally bit the dust. Of course by then I needed a whole new set of weird connector cables to make the SOB work.
I have a hard time throwing anything out that still works. I’ve got a 27″ Panasonic CRT that still got a good picture. I doubt if I could give it away anymore.
I’ve only bought 2 tvs in my life, the first in 2010 when I moved out, I sold that one in 2017 when I moved across the country into a place that already had a couple different tvs. The second one I bought during boxing week of 2020.
In the time that I’ve been alive, my parents have only bought 3 tvs, a 32″ RCA CRT in the mid 90s, a 40″ plasma in 2007/8 (and it was only 720P, too!), and a 4k 42″ LED this past December.
We used to be that good with our computers, but hardware failures seem to be more common now than they were in the 90s and early 00s 🙁
My sister and BIL did not own a TV for at least the first 25 years they were married (they’ve now been married 50). Even now they have never had cable TV and only recently have they started adding some streaming services at the very basic level. When we were at there Christmas Eve this year, my sister unveiled their brand new TV! They had gone from something like a 35″ TV to a 40″ TV and were very proud to make the jump small as it was.
my old TV was made in 2001. (and I believed it to be older than that, until I went and looked just now.) Sure, it works fine, but currently I can only watch blu-ray’s on my computer, which is less old. it’s annoying.
I’ve owned three TVs in my adult life: a little 13-inch my parents got free when they bought a used car six years before, a 25-inch tube TV, and the non-Smart HDTV I picked up shortly after getting my current job. That covers…counts…nearly 30 years.
When you don’t make a lot, you learn how to stretch technology (typing on a Windows 7 desktop)
My dad and his second wife (long story) got me my first flatscreen. I let it gather dust in a closet until the big screen I already had finally bit the dust. Of course by then I needed a whole new set of weird connector cables to make the SOB work.
Wait, you guys have tvs?
I have a hard time throwing anything out that still works. I’ve got a 27″ Panasonic CRT that still got a good picture. I doubt if I could give it away anymore.
I was the last one in family who had a CRT TV. It lasted so long until it finally gave out in 2012
I’ve only bought 2 tvs in my life, the first in 2010 when I moved out, I sold that one in 2017 when I moved across the country into a place that already had a couple different tvs. The second one I bought during boxing week of 2020.
In the time that I’ve been alive, my parents have only bought 3 tvs, a 32″ RCA CRT in the mid 90s, a 40″ plasma in 2007/8 (and it was only 720P, too!), and a 4k 42″ LED this past December.
We used to be that good with our computers, but hardware failures seem to be more common now than they were in the 90s and early 00s 🙁
My sister and BIL did not own a TV for at least the first 25 years they were married (they’ve now been married 50). Even now they have never had cable TV and only recently have they started adding some streaming services at the very basic level. When we were at there Christmas Eve this year, my sister unveiled their brand new TV! They had gone from something like a 35″ TV to a 40″ TV and were very proud to make the jump small as it was.