Progress and The Diggy Box
Me and Our Gert have just joined the digital age. We had to; the old telly wouldn’t work. Apparently it was anabolic which was no good.
So what we’ve got now is a big flat screen the neighbours watch from the other side of the garden fence and a diggy box.
I’m comfortable with this.
My mam and dad’s first telly was like a wardrobe with a porthole. Inside it concealed a bewildering collection of upturned bottles which looked like pictures I’d seen of the Kremlin and which glowed red when you turned on the telly. (In fact watching the bottles glow was often more entertaining than watching what perpetually rolled upwards or downwards in the porthole).
Anyway, the point is this. You had to turn on the telly a good minute before your programme to give the bottles chance to warm up.
Which is why I’m so comfortable with the diggy-box.
M.C. Newberry
Fri 22nd Feb 2013 14:34
It was the vertical hold that sorted the up and down roll, and the horizontal hold that stopped the image separating sideways - when the top might be on the right and the bottom half on the left of the picture. Like cars, "they" have taken the control of things from us mere mortals and given it to "the machine". E.G. we now have the old manual wind-up lever for a car window offered as an "extra" on one make of car!! And who can tune today's carburettors with a little dexterity between finger and ear, like we could then? Is this really "useful" progress?