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Originally Posted by Eric H
I wonder if people complained about the new square tubes, after all, eyeballs are round the screen should be too.  |
Most certainly they did not complain , in fact , the new rectangle shape was seen as a futuristic advancement by most folks . Remember , TV's main competition was movies and theater , and both movie screens and theater stages were rectangular . Photographs also . The end of the porthole fad was the end of any kind of love for round screens and I remember in my youth scrapping hundreds of unwanted round screen TVs . Funny , like any other recently made obsolete household appliance , folks couldn't ditch their old sets fast enough when the latest and greatest came along .