John Logie Baird demonstrated his invention 100 years ago.
I grew up watching black and white tv until my parents rented a colour tv to watch Virginia Wade win Wimbledon in 1977.
So many changes since then.
We thought we were up to date with tv when living in rural France particularly with the introduction of fibre and WiFi but this week we have experienced what some will already have but for us it is an amazing advance in tv technology.
Freely, introduced to the UK in 2024, is wifi tv with a difference.
Sky is our Internet provider and from thier state of the art box we can get wifi tv anywhere in our house.
Our 17 years in France must have shielded us from all the communication advances in recent years as we have been totally amazed how life is here today.
No smart phone almost means no life.
similar memory⌠Dad finally succumbed to colour tv in the 70âs and marvelled at how it improved his enjoyment of televised cricket matches
OH and I couldnât afford tv (sob sob) we enjoyed radio programmes of no particular colour 
Have you looked at their mobile deals?, weâve been with them for awhile now and happy with what we pay.
I always chuckle how you can still buy DVD players and satellite receivers here in France with SCART connectivity.
Yes my father was a holdout against getting a colour TV for ages - mind you to be fair to him they were very expensive back then. Later on when I had my own place I remember renting a TV and VHS video recorder because they were too expensive to buy outright.
My biggest âearly TV memoriesâ are watching the first appearance of the Daleks in Doctor Who in 1963, and then Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the Moon in 1969. I was riveted to those Apollo mission TV broadcasts with James Burke and Sir Patrick Moore. As an aside, I had the pleasure of meeting Sir Patrick in the 1980s, he was an extraordinary character (and further to the right politically than Attila the Hun)! He was also an accomplished xylophone player!
We are totally spoiled nowadays with a huge number of channels and on-demand services (OK, at a price), and big-screen 4K TV sets available for a few hundred quid!
They invented the peritel connection so bound to want to show off 
And definitely snooker 
Ah, the halcyon days when every high street in the Home Counties had a Rumbelowâs, a Radio Rentals and a DER.
I remember it being well into the 1980s before my parents actually owned their TV.
Yes! - remember Whispering Ted Loweâs famous comment: âand for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the greenâŚâ
yes⌠and Come Dancing et al⌠what a transformation!
we would stand outside the shop and watch their tv⌠
Mine too, dad would not entertain it until the colours had âcalmed downâ and were not half of and half of another shade. DER for us and always came promptly if the set went on the blink or we wanted an upgrade, most people rented back then as TVâs were pretty expensive.
Without a doubt, one of the most useless connectors ever invented.
Yes most SCART plugs and sockets were built down to a price.
HDMI is built like a tank in comparison.
No smart â phone for me is total heaven! My Dumbphone does real fine! When I see four plus young people in our local resto, not communicating, but dabbing on their smart? phones, It makes me wonder what sort of generation is coming up! Mind you, a lot of oldsters do it too. I know that if I had one, I would be just the same! So I wonât.
So, really, itâs nothing to do with being younger?
Of course it is! Even my GREAT grandies are at it at aged 6,7 and 9. The other ones are still babies, but they will soon be dabbing!
My family already had television when I was born in 1949. I remember everyone gathered round the 9â Pye for the Coronation. On the BBC news at lunchtime they said a 100 years of fighting over the remote. Oh dear.
Nothing about Horizontal and Vertical hold or The InterludeâŚ.
Yep, not every family had tv.. we were lucky.
We were not allowed to watch scary stuff (quatermass??) and that small screen gave us kids enormous pleasure.. Muffin the Mule , Andy Pandy⌠and, of course, The Flowerpot Men ( and Little Weeeed ) and Mr Turnip (I still have that string puppet!) The 50âs held some magical times for us kids..
Thereâs Freeview Play as well, which is very similar and is supported on more devices I think. Iâm looking to get my sister in law sorted with this as she just wants free to view channels plus Netflix and Now TV. She currently has a weird subscription with Virgin Media with lots of sports channels added that is costing her ÂŁ120 per month 
but she doesnât need any of this any more. She also has a 25+ year old TV so itâll probably be a new cheapish LG tv because they pretty much all support all she wants.