Anachronism

Back in the 50s and 60s, outer suburbia and rural towns were festooned with huge TV antennas atop soaring masts, all straining to receive snowy, grainy programs on cumbersome black & white boxes, broadcast from the major cities and towns.

Over the years, receivers got more sensitive, transmitters got more powerful,  repeater stations sprang up, microwave communications came into being, "co-axial cable" stretched between urban centres, analogue signals gave way to digital ones and free-to-air transmission surrendered to satellite reception. Then there were cable subscriptions, DVDs, TiVo boxes and finally internet streaming to smart, flat 4K panels.

Traditional TV antennas are disappearing now and those that remain stand out as quaint anachronism just a bit.