Rockin’ Ron Cade and I are soul mates. Last week I was trying to remember this one Elvis song that I had only recently discovered. I poured through my mp3s with no luck. This morning, I opened my eyes and realizing it was Sunday and time for Elvis and Friends, turned on my silver Panasonic RX-5050 boom box circa 1983. One-Sided Love Affair shot out my speakers. THAT’S IT! THAT’S THE SONG!! Thanks Ron!
Tonight we are going out to an early dinner for Mother’s Day. I think we’ll have Chinese food. That’s what my Mom said she wanted yesterday.
This evening is the Elvis TV Movie I have been anxiously awaiting. I can watch it upstair at my parent’s house but I’d rather watch it at home. Those rabbit ears I bought are crap. None of the stations come in with any clarity. I just checked and CBS isn’t so bad. It looks reminiscent of when I was a little girl and my dad would run the popcorn machine at the same time as when I was watching the TV and the screen would get lines of static running across it. Heck, I know what Elvis looks like, it’s not like I really need to see the picture.
Why can’t I get good reception? Lisa says it is the cable companies. They scramble the signal so you have to subscribe to cable. I wonder if it is just that manufacturers aren’t even bothering to put receivers in televisions anymore.
With more and more viewers taking cable or satellite, TV manufacturers don’t feel compelled to provide high-quality tuning sections anymore; they throw in the cheapest tuner-on-a-chip they can get. (Similarly, AM radio, now that the band has been largely abandoned to talk-show types, is given short shrift in the design stages.)
As a side note, AM may make a comeback in the next several years as a medium for music; AM digital radio is supporsed to have sound quality as good as FM and it has AM’s advantage in terms of distance. It would require AM stations to invest in new equipment. It is being implemented in some other parts of the world now.
You don’t have cable at all or just not the upstairs TV?
Nope– no cable at all– no satellite either. We barely get any reception and the only time we turn on the TV is to watch a Netflix dvd.
You are probably all the more efficient for it.
I thought so too but what has happened is I have traded my TV watching for Internet surfing. One might say that at least the Internet isn’t as passive but I still waste loads of time.
I noticed the same thing. I gave up the TV or 6 months because I need to get out and get more in shape. Instead I sit on the net more and more. On the plus side I did more to a beautiful newer house, now lets see if I can stomach the HUGE mortgage (about AVG for california 660k) 🙁
-Jason