I remember going to the city 32 miles away to buy a TV because there weren't any TV stores in my little town.

Dad spent an hour or so with a salesman - bought one that probably weighed 100 pounds, came with legs, probably 3' high with maybe a 19" color screen.

We already had the antenna on the roof - picking up two stations from that same city 32 miles away, and one from another city 90 miles away.

We had to arrange for delivery and a guy came out a few days later and put the TV in place and had some strange instruments to de-gauze it or something before we could watch anything.


A few weeks ago I got a free TV as a bonus from my job, and it was delivered by UPS in a cardboard box, left on my doorstep, 19" screen, probably weighs less than 2 pounds including built in DVD - plug and play.