Old TV

I have an old tv in my living room. It’s so old that it’s got a ‘vertical hold’ knob. It doesn’t have a remote or a front panel covering the controls. However, the thing that has killed this particular set is its lack of inputs. Apart from the antenna, there’s nothing. That means that when the metro areas of Australia switch to digital tv next year, this box will be worthless, as I cannot connect a set-top box to it.

What am I to do? Well, I could donate it to someone out in the countryside (where analogue transmission is going on to 2013) or I could scrap it.

This brings up an interesting issue – we can’t use ‘antique’ tvs as they were used in the past, just like we can’t use analogue mobile phones. Maybe 50 years in the future someone will set up an analogue transmission system for tvs and mobile phones. It would be a good attraction in the museums – Hey Kids, try to stop the image moving by twiddling this knob! Maybe I should hang on to this relic…