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January 1926 - British television

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For those on pay cable I want to watch, I get the DVD sets when available.
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For movies & general entertainment we use a roku box & watch Netflix shows most of the time. (Not surprising, our favorites lean toward british TV.)
 
We had a set built for us in 1949 by Marshall Wilder, a neighbo rwho worked at CBS Labs.It was the first in our neighborhood. There were only 3 channels in New York at first - 2,4 and 5. CBS, RCA and Dumont. We saw hockey and baseball games, wrestling. Milton Berle, Dave Garroway (At Large) who owned a Jaguar SS100. The picture was always going out of synch, either horizontal or vertical, and my dad spent much time kneeling down in front of the set "milking it" as we called it. He later bought a large plastic lens which when placed in front of the small picture tube, magnified it into a large picture, guaranteed to produce eyestrain and a headache after a few minutes of staring into it. Plus if you were seated off to the side, you saw nothing. Our first color set was a Magnavox, bought to view the first Super Bowl game in 1966.
 
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