Old television in keeping it postive

In the mid 1980's I bought two televisions - one for the bedroom, the other for the living room. The one for the living room had no remote as it was a floor model... not a big deal. The living room television went pffffft a few months ago.

The bedroom TV has been giving me a smaller and smaller image - pure black from the top and bottom. It finally was just giving me a small bit of glare in the middle of the screen... Ah, well, it WAS time to change it.

I'd bought a flat screen television YEARS ago. I just hadn't installed it until the one I was using died completely. I was nervous - hadn't done this in many years, plus the flat screen television (still in its box) had been sitting on its end rather than top side up.

It was SO easy. I had to unscrew the co-ax cable from the old television, attach the stand to the new one, screw in the co-ax cable to the new television. Surprisingly the image is the same size although the screen is much larger. I don't have HD cable, and thought it would be a problem. The image I get is great, it's fine without having the cable company come to give me an HD box. I'll survive.

But I've been basically without television for a few days... and aside from using it to fall asleep, didn't miss it very much.