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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
Huh? Antennas still work and very well in many cases. I've been OTA for nearly four years. (And I'm not "settling" either.)
When new things come along, and things change, sometimes people assume obsoletion when it's really not even close to that.
Kind of like books. |
Well I don't know how well they work generally, but around here by next Sept. it's going all digital. I agree the analogy isn't exact though. Paper books have been around a lot longer than TV. And I didn't say that paper books were obsolete or going to just vanish overnight. Just that when something new comes along, or a new way of doing something that is well established many people treat it as a fad or novelty figuring it won't last. Sometimes that attitude is fostered by conditions as well. I mean people still used horse drawn buggies in a lot of areas up til the 1940's or so, but part of that was the fact that a lot of roads weren't really made for cars yet. Most were either dirt or gravel outside of towns unlike today where a lot of them are paved with blacktop. So horse drawn vehicles were more able to get around. The paper book publishing industry isn't going to just vanish overnight certainly but gradually (I think) it will be phased out in its current form as more and more people go to the convenience of ebooks.