Originally Posted by
DiabloScott
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.
I especially hadn't thought of a degaussing coil in a long time ! From back when you actually had your TV repaired rather than throwing it away. My dad had a TV sales and repair business and I was often on the heavy end of a TV/Stereo "combination" remember them ? - and they always seemed to have to go up a flight of stairs
