I remember being a kid, and the first time I saw a guy with a TV Walkman from Sony, and all I could think was awesome that must have been.  I felt the same way later when the TV tuner was released for the Sega Game Gear.  I thought that at some point in my life, it would be sweet to have a TV Walkman…

Now I, and so many others, have iPods with video.  It’s pretty amazing.  Not only is it more compact than what I imagined as a child, its better, and does so many more things.  OK, true, it doesn’t have the ability to tune into TV airwaves, (maybe never now that the broadcast signal changed?)  but I don’t watch TV that way anymore.  It kind of blows my mind that something that as a child was such a far and away luxury fantasy, is now pretty much the standard plus so many other things.  I mean really, can you imagine bringing an iPhone back in time 10 years.  “Hi, here’s my phone.   Its also my TV/Walkman, hard drive, and gets internet faster than you 56k.”  Let alone that the sheer amount of disk space and playback on these devices was unheard of back then.

And to think, as a child, it hadn’t even occured to me that one day the Walkman and TV Walkman would essentially be one unified device… nor that I wanted that, and could someday have it.

Ugh, I’ll stop now, the old man on the porch feeling is starting to set in.