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By the 90s everyone in the Northerhn hemisphere got a decent TV with instant tuning. Once you tuned the channel and set it up to a button on the remote or the TV front panel, things went as fast as Linux switching TTY's todays. No joke.

>>anthk+(OP)
Yes, I remember well when in 1990 they went door to door handing out brand new TVs...

Ahem. In the 80s I remember struggling with a set my grandparents must have bought in the late 60s to try to watch TV. It was like holding a seance for sitcoms. I expect plenty of people were still watching TV in the 90s on sets sold in the 70s and 80s. Maybe not the majority, but I wouldn't assume "everyone" had the current goodness.

>>jzb+dT
Even my grandma's TV from the 80's had instant buttons to switch between channels but no TV remote. And, yet, the tuning was on the spot. No delays. Zero. Literally.