I first saw TV as a small child in the early 50's, when we visited grandparents in a large city. Saturday morning cartoons with lotsa cousins! By late 50's my parents got a Black & White console TV, but picture quality was poor because we were far from the transmitter - improved later when we got a cable service based on a mountain-top antenna system. We married in mid-60's and used a tabletop B&W hand-me-down TV for several years. Watched the moon landing on that. Got our first used console colour unit in mid 70's, I think, and I read and learned all I could about how it worked and how to optimize the colour display system. Up to then all were tube systems with rotary "turret tuners". Somewhere in there we got into home video cameras in place of older 8mm movie systems, and of course VCR's. Later we got a tabletop 19" colour TV with solid state circuitry and a digital tuner (still analog TV signals) fed by a cable TV service. For over a decade now we've had a flat-screen colour LED 30" from Samsung, 1080p resolution, digital and analog signal capable. Mostly now it is used fed from a computer DVR-like system, but can use sometimes for over-the-air broadcasts - no cable service used. Still have VCR's, a couple with DVD drives in them, not used often.
We still have an odd TV-Clock-Radio unit in our bedroom with a small (5" diagonal) B&W screen. Picture was small and not great quality, but now it is useless for TV - only has an older analog tuner system.