Years later a black and white, miniature TV came on the market and I payed for and ordered one. It did not turn up.
Years after that, Casio brought out this one - a colour TV with a screen measuring one and a half inches the traditional diagonal way. This one did turn up. It was a childhood dream made real, 25 years late.
The only things I have watched on it are Ben Hur and Princess Diana's funeral - both epics. I tried watching a football match, but that just turned into a spot-the-ball competition. Subtitled films were also out of the question. I blame this TV for my failure to succeed as a professional critic, despite yesterday's post.
Now it does not work at all because of the switch from analogue to digital, but I still hang onto it for sentimental reasons. It might be a collectible for all I know. Actually, I have just looked it up on eBay and they sell for about £7. It's staying here.
My young mind would have been blown if I had been given a preview of things to come. I saw a child too young to talk playing intently with a smartphone in a pram recently.
I wonder what the children's dreams are now. I'll ask my grandchildren if I remember.
ReplyDeleteYes, that would be interesting to know.
DeleteI have similar obsolete now useless things I hang on to for their deep personal significance.
ReplyDeleteI hope I never fall into that category with H.I.
DeleteIt could be worse.
DeleteYes, I could be discarded.
DeleteI have a sony watchman which is bot bigger but similar thing - mine is still in its box. I was thinking how it might still be usable as it has an aerial input and reckon it probably would be if I had a digi-box converter like they gave out at the time of the switchover.
ReplyDeleteSo you strap on a digi-box converter which is 10 times the size of the device, just to get it working? Nah, just buy a replacement I reckon.
DeleteI can't imagine watching a screen that small.
ReplyDeleteIt is more rewarding than you might think.
DeleteI once gave a tv with a six inch screen to a girl who lived in a miniscule apartment in Los Angeles. She watched the news on it, but gave it away after the WTC airplanes. It was not big enough for that much news.
ReplyDeleteThat is the best argument against miniature TVs I have ever heard.
DeletePirate has one of the first mobile phones that went in a car..it should be in a museum!
ReplyDeleteAnd to finish your quote...While greater fools look on ????
The first mobile I ever used was basically a car battery with a full size hand set on it. I was so embarrassed, even then.
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