{"id":21568,"date":"2020-11-24T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=21568"},"modified":"2020-11-24T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T18:46:26","slug":"what-you-gonna-do-when-you-get-out-of-jail-part-239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=21568","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat you gonna do when you get out of jail?\u2026\u201d part 239"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Techmoan is kind of a fun channel, but one that I try to avoid overusing. I&#8217;m using it today because this video popped up, and it answers a question that&#8217;s been in the back of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to portable televisions? Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sony_Watchman\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Watchman<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the digital transition killed off the old analog portables. But why don&#8217;t we have portable digital televisions?<\/p>\n<p>Short answer: we do, but not from any major manufacturers, and they&#8217;re pretty much crap as televisions. (Some of them may be decent portable media players, but do they do anything you can&#8217;t do with a small laptop or tablet?)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/idOJyjdbo-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m out shopping in thrift stores and other odd places, and see one of those cool looking old portable devices with a TV built in, I think about picking it up and hooking up a converter box, just for the lulz.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: &#8220;Prison Tech&#8221;. Not really the kind of thing people in prison improvise, but rather what kind of tech you&#8217;re allowed to have (and can purchase) for prison use.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3PfsndsihY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11679\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Previously on WCD<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techmoan is kind of a fun channel, but one that I try to avoid overusing. I&#8217;m using it today because this video popped up, and it answers a question that&#8217;s been in the back of my mind. Whatever happened to portable televisions? Remember the Sony Watchman? Obviously, the digital transition killed off the old analog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,97,70,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-history","category-radio","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21587,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21568\/revisions\/21587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}