Aerials and disks.

In the late 50s, early 60s and perhaps up to late 70s, when one flew in an aeroplane low over London one could see TV aerials on every roof, together with smoking chimneys, though the number of smoking chimneys have been reduced drastically by early 70s. But the number of TV aerials were never reduced.

In a less developed countries like Malaysia, TV aerials were not common untill the early 70s. Then overnight they proliferate, and almost every house seemed to have a TV aerial indicating that the house had a TVs, most likely black and white which soon got replaced by coloured.

Then satelite TV came into being by late 90s, when TV aerials now just became almost redundent and these are replaced by satelite disks. These are the current scenes in most house roofs, though there are still houses using TV aerials.


(These are TV aerials, which still exist on some roof tops in Malaysia, though its doubtful if they are of use anymore, except for places where birds perched and gathered in the early morning and before dusk. The round structure is a exhaust vane, exhausting hot air from house ceiling - they work on an air convection effect).


(These are the current satellite receptor disks for satellite TV used in Malaysia. Two are shown here but one seems to be not connected for whatever reason).

Probably in not too distant future TV aerials will be antique or collectors item or just pieces of metal to be shown in a museum. Technology has progressed fast.