Portable TV
I've always liked the idea of a portable TV. The idea of walking around watching TV while standing in line some place, or doing chores around the house is something of a novelty. When the first portable TVs came out, I remember picking one up and feeling pretty excited about the idea. The one I got was black and white only, carried an exorbitant price tag, and had a pretty poor image, but hey, I could watch TV while doing laundry, or shaving. How cool is that?
Really, it's not that cool, and I felt pretty stupid a few months later when the freshness of the idea began to get a little stale. Maybe if the portable TV I had bought had a decent image, could maintain more than just two or three of the most basic radio cast channels, and sounded at least a notch or two better than a dying cat in a snowstorm, it might have been at least partly worth the high price I paid. Needless to say, it was a pretty poor quality contraption that I quickly grew tired of.
The only time I felt glad to have my first portable TV was after the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. As a native and resident of the San Francisco bay area, it was nice being able to see something of what was happening after the quake that interrupted the 1989 World Series. I had been watching the game on my regular TV when suddenly the whole world shook like crazy and the power went out. The rest of the world could watch on television to see what was happening, but everyone in the bay area could only listen to it on radio. Except for those of us that had shelled out for our own portable TVs. So I dusted mine off and watched in astonishment pictures of collapsed freeways, blazing fires, and a damaged bridge.
Portable TVs today have come a long way since then. They are now almost all in color, have a far superior image and sound quality compared to the first ones, and can transmit a much greater variety of channels. More importantly, the price tags have come down a long way. For less than what I paid for my dubious first portable TV, I now own a larger, flat screen color TV with excellent image quality, good sound and a decent selection of channels. I still don?t actually use it that much, but its nice knowing that I have it in case of another earthquake or other emergency that knocks out all the power.
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