Flashback: Here's One of the First Ads for a Flat Screen TV in 1998
In less than 20 years, we've managed to eradicate tube televisions from the mainstream market. It's hilarious to think when this ad rolled for the Phillips flat screen in 1998, my family had a 32-inch tube television in our living room. Now I think everyone in my family at least has a 50-inch flat screen in their living room, as well as another TV in some other room.
Look how bulky this thing is! That thing would destroy whatever it fell on! Luckily, they trimmed down the size and made them a lot more manageable than tube televisions ever were. I remember it being a task to move one of those tube televisions, and don't even get me started on those giant box big screen TV's...how did we ever use those?!
It's great to look back and speculate on what we will all be using in another 20 years. Check out the classic commercial below.