You are talking to a guy who remembers the first television set coming in the house. It was a RCAblack and white with a picture tube about a mile long. The screen was pretty small, 8-10" IIRC. There was only one channel. It was pretty much the same story at The Farm. The problem there was the tax we had to pay to legeally recieve the signal. We had several sets there and the tax alone cost more than the TV sets CONUS.
The first "Color TV's" simply had a thin lite blue tint along the top ov the set and a green one along the bottom. That lasted about a couple of months until the Real Color TV's were hitting the homes.
I can put up with the inconvenience of VHS for the sake of nostalgia. Yeah, Jesus Christ had his picture in my highschool yearbook, he was a couple of years ahead of me.