Interview on First TV Experience

I interviewed my father who was born and raised in India about his first television experience and he seemed to have a lot of fun remembering way back when he first watched "that shitty box".

Q: Do you remember your first TV experience?

A: Yes, I remember it quite vividly.

Q: What did you watch?

A: I wish I could tell you the name of it, but I watched an old black and white Bollywood movie.

Q: What was your opinion?

A: I was very confused, it was probably '76 (laughing). I thought it was brilliant however now looking back it was hilarious.

Q: Where you hooked?

A: I bet you're expecting I say yes, because it was a great invention and changed life as we knew it, but I honestly wasn't. I was very young then and the TV only played some movies and nothing really that interested me, I thought it was much more fun to go outside and play with my friends.

Q: What did the TV look like?

A: There was a huge antenna on the roof, and from the roof came a big wire that came thought the ceiling into the TV. The TV itself was huge, the screen pretty small. The TV was like a piece of furniture, it had four legs and just sat there in the room. ( Smiling) The picture was fuzzy and black and white, we often had my dad go out and try to move the antenna around to try to fix the picture.

Q: Where were you when you watched it for the first time?

A: It was in the village ( My dad actually said that and I started laughing and the told him I needed more than that)I was at the neighbour's, our family didn't really like them, but we went over to watch TV anyways, even when they weren't home.

Q: Compare your first experience to today's.

A: Today, I would say I'm hooked, TV is where I access most of my information, gain entertainment, and even bond with you sometimes. It has really revolutionized the life of humans, and there are hundreds of channels for thousands of shows, some shows that you wouldn't even imagine why they make, I watched a show about Pest Control and watched them kill rats and bugs, why? I don't know why. But at first TV was that shitty box, at least back at home it was.