Television-viewing tech changing fast

When I was a kid, we had five television stations broadcasting in my town: three local affiliates, one local station and one public access station. With so few programming options, it was pretty easy to remember what was on and when it was on.

In the mid-1980s, my brother shelled out some big bucks for a 6-foot satellite dish that offered close to 1,000 programming options (this was in the pre-scramble days). You could watch just about anything you could imagine — and I mean anything. When the monthly programming guide would come in the mail, its size rivaled the local…