Source: Deccan Herald | Sreedevi Rao, Mar 3, 2014
Tuesday 04 March 2014
When our twelve year old faithful television conked off, our hunt for its replacement started. In spite of doing a bit of homework on all the brands through the net and the brochure procured, the sales persons were successful in confusing us to the core rattling off highly advanced features.
Thirty years ago, nobody would have dreamt even in their wildest of dreams that the small screen would progress so much technically. I remember my father had bought the then famous black and white television called Dyanora in 1972. He spent a fortune of Rs 4000 then. It had about six buttons which used to stick out. One each for hold, contrast, bright, the on-off buttons were provided. Some televisions were provided with an internal antenna and some with external. Both seemed to be good. As the external antenna used to be fixed on the terrace, in case of problems it was laborious task to set it right going on the terrace. So some opted for the internal antenna.
Slowly the market was infiltrated with colour televisions like Crown, Weston, etc. Dyanora lost the race against the colour ones. Though Dyanora tried its hand on colour television, it was a total disaster. Weston and Crown were fairly good though the colour scheme was a little dull. Those days television used to boot up late and hence Crown introduced the instant start colour television. Then colour television was supposed to be very luxurious and hence only the so called well-to-do families used to buy. But the epic serial ‘Mahabharata’................
Read more at http://www.deccanherald.com/content/389589/journey-idiot-box.html
When our twelve year old faithful television conked off, our hunt for its replacement started. In spite of doing a bit of homework on all the brands through the net and the brochure procured, the sales persons were successful in confusing us to the core rattling off highly advanced features.
Thirty years ago, nobody would have dreamt even in their wildest of dreams that the small screen would progress so much technically. I remember my father had bought the then famous black and white television called Dyanora in 1972. He spent a fortune of Rs 4000 then. It had about six buttons which used to stick out. One each for hold, contrast, bright, the on-off buttons were provided. Some televisions were provided with an internal antenna and some with external. Both seemed to be good. As the external antenna used to be fixed on the terrace, in case of problems it was laborious task to set it right going on the terrace. So some opted for the internal antenna.
Slowly the market was infiltrated with colour televisions like Crown, Weston, etc. Dyanora lost the race against the colour ones. Though Dyanora tried its hand on colour television, it was a total disaster. Weston and Crown were fairly good though the colour scheme was a little dull. Those days television used to boot up late and hence Crown introduced the instant start colour television. Then colour television was supposed to be very luxurious and hence only the so called well-to-do families used to buy. But the epic serial ‘Mahabharata’................
Read more at http://www.deccanherald.com/content/389589/journey-idiot-box.html
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