:) Great personal story about the TV, this short passage looks like entire post to me, and a very interesting one ... when I imagine people around the broken TV - is a great scene :) whatever the context, surely captures the attention and imagination and looks like a metaphor for something ... is interesting to compare it with my TV history from the 80' in another part of the world with a very different political and economic system, we had a small black and white TV until the mid eighties, I remember watching all movies and documentaries in monochrome and often not knowing which ones were originally in color ... I remember once, visiting my Dad's friend from work in the city, and there was a normal TV :) that looked huge to me, and on the program was '' The thief of Baghdad" movie - it looked fantastic, and that moment is still very vivid in memory ... we had officially only two programs to chose from, but here where I live, near Italy, we can see the Italian programs too, although often the signal was pretty bad, depending on of the weather conditions, sometimes, when something good was on some Italian program, my father will go on the roof turning the antenna, and I was watching the TV and yelling - good, when the image started to look better or stopped moving up and down ... on our Yugoslavian TV , beside the tons of domestic movies about Partisans that gave me the feeling that the WW2 was over only a few months ago and ready to explode again, there was also, somehow, place and time for a lot of good foreign classic movies, not only Hollywood, but also French, Italian and Russian classics, I think that the explanation of the so many movies in program is that there was no Reality shows :) no political debate programs, and just one daily news report in 19 :30 h