I'm still lingering, and still collecting, I just do it much slower now as I have all the models of Sony 5" Portable Trinitron sets I wanted. Now I slowly spend time looking for really clean sets with what I hope are low hours, even if they're a duplicate of another set I already own, saving another and adding it to my collection and having a nicer set to watch never hurts.
Recently I scored a nearly mint condition, almost no hours, KV5100 set. I've never seen one as clean as this one is, and it really shows in how well it works.
I decided to drive down to visit a friend in Chicago, and I knew from seeing the faint signal of it here at home in Lake Geneva, that were was still a UHF station pumping classic TV with an Analog signal from Chicago on Channel 23, called Heros & Icons, so on my way out I grabbed my new KV5100 and lugged it along, since it's a "Portable" TV!
It really took me and my friend back to when we were kids, fussing with the antenna for a better picture to overcome the static. Sitting there on his bed near a big window, messing with the antenna to clear the picture up, watching classic TV shows, the old faded colors of shows of the era, the static that would come and go from the screen, the interference from local noise, meddling with the settings on the TV for just a little better picture.
It was honestly a very nostalgic feeling to see that again. To experience something that, at one time in my life, I never thought twice about having to deal with, where as now, analog TV is all but gone, the massive FCC joke of DTV left in it's place. The feeling of seeing what I grew up with, watching Saturday Morning cartoons on, messing with the antenna rotor box, adjusting the TV for the better picture. Now it's DTV, and you have to have a stupid box, a big antenna, and hope it works, and if you're like me and pretty far from the transmitters, you don't get anything but a black screen, or just distorted pictures.
I just wanted to share this. Remember, analog is laid to it's final rest September 1st, 2015.