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Very true about the $100 replacement! But I miss those days when there was real money in television. Back then, when one called a manufacturer with an urgent need for a strange part, it wasn't necessary to explain how the downtime was costing your employer thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Often, the manufacturer would return to the phone to say that the part had already been dispatched to a human courier, who was already on his/her way to the airport, and that the part would be arriving on flight xxx counter to counter air at your local airport in three hours. Overnight was not good enough.
For the same reason, excellent engineers and technicians, who could find and fix a problem quickly, were worth very high wages. Now, thanks to the fragmentation of audiences and the likes of the $100 playback device, many operations don't employ any real tech people anymore and the few that do treat them like janitors. Simply throw it away if it breaks.
Today's technology is utterly amazing, but a lot of the humanity is gone. It was more like a big league team sport long ago.
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01-11-2021, 12:32 PM
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