TV blues or reds
11/19/2009 1:43:08 PM

I am inching my way into the 21st century. I consider myself pretty tech-savvy, but I'm only fooling myself. But this week, I took a giant step and bought a new HDTV.

I had my old TV for more than 15 years. I would have kept it longer but the red went haywire and when it wasn't working most everything was a shade of yellow.

In the old days, and I'm talking the 1950s and 1960s, if something screwed up with the TV it was usually a tube. You could yank those out, take them down to Otasco and put them on the tester. You found the bad one and replaced it. If it was a picture tube, a much more serious problem, that meant a call to the TV repairman.

I never had to worry about the color going out on one of our TVs because my folks didn't get a color TV until I had left home.

But there are no "tubes" on TVs anymore. It is likely a computer chip that controls the red or some other mysterious contraption that I know nothing about.

The red-out was a good excuse to get a new TV. So, I soon (Friday afternoon) will have a 40-inch Mitsubishi HDTV with a built in soundbar (which will allow me to get rid of all those wires creeping across the floor for my surround sound system) and a wireless subwoofer.

Whoo-hoo! Just in time for the OU game. The 21st century is looking better all the time.







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