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Could you imagine paying more than $11,500 for a TV? A leading Canadian electronics retailer currently lists several models of 85-inch to 100-inch (215 cm to 254 cm) TVs from $12,000 to a cool $100,000. 

In the late 1930s, however, the equivalent of $11,500 today would buy you only a 12-inch (30 cm) screen. When the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) started broadcasting in 1952, there were less than 150,000 TV sets in the country. Thirteen years later, 92% of Canadian homes had televisions–there were more TVs in homes than telephones or installed bathtubs.

There’s simply no comparison between the technology of TV’s golden age with the custom world of the latest TV technology. Along the way, we saw the birth of cable television, whose…

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