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1. katry Says:

   
   March 22, 2015 at 12:15 pm

   Marvin Minksy quote
2. flyboybob Says:

   
   March 22, 2015 at 1:16 pm

   My parents bought their first TV in 1947. I guess they figured it might be good for me since I was born in 1947. It was a Crosley TV with s ten inch screen mounted in a large box which stood on a table top stand. It also received FM radio. My earliest recollection of TV was Howdy Doody, Captain Video, Love of Life and Milton Berle. Oh, and when you turned off the TV the picture would collapse into a single dot of light in the middle of the screen which slowly went away.
   • katry Says:

     
     March 22, 2015 at 2:12 pm

     Bob,
     My parents had neighbors who bought the first TV. My mother said all the neighbors would bring their chairs and watch TV.

     My parents bought one when I was a year old. It had a tiny screen. The one I remember most was the console TV they got when I was 9 or 10.

     Howdy Doody is one of my memories as well. I remember the dot and I remember the Indian test pattern which came when all the TV stations went off the air.
     • flyboybob Says:

       
       March 22, 2015 at 2:32 pm

       My parents had the first TV in their apartment building in Brooklyn. I remember the neighbors coming in to watch Uncle Milty on Tuesday nights. Before there was daytime TV I used to watch the Indian test pattern until TV programming started at five in the evening. During the 50s some of the best programs were aired on live TV. Shows such as Playhouse 90, Your Show of Shows and Omnibus. Writers like Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling wrote serious programs such as Requiem for a Heavyweight. Unfortunately, the sponsors had too much power and demanded junk programs. Serling was only able to write quality material for TV by wrapping around Science Fiction on the Twilight Zone.
     • katry Says:

       
       March 22, 2015 at 5:58 pm

       Bob,
       We never watched TV until we were forced to come inside the house when the streets came on. I remember the test pattern more when TV was off in the morning. Early TV was live. You also had actors like Rod Steiger, Paul Newman, Kim Hunter, Jack Lemmon and James Dean.

       The cost of producing and filming programs made commercials necessary. People flocked to watch programs like The Beverly Hillbillies. As more and more people owned TV’s, tastes changed propelled by the audience.
3. minicapt Says:

   
   March 22, 2015 at 4:23 pm

   The arrival of Wide Screen was greeted with a measure of approbation.

   Cheers
   • katry Says:

     
     March 22, 2015 at 5:49 pm

     minicapt,
     I remember the big push to advertise wide-screen. It was a phenomenon.

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