Even with hundreds of channels on cable or satellite, a lot of people say they would be happy with just a few local channels. A new service aims to make this normally free over the air (OTA) TV a lot easier to get, but is it legal?

Forget those cute videos of people's cats, if YouTube has their way, they plan to become your new source for original TV entertainment.

Oh, but not just any stick, it'd have been this extendable one. This patent from 1976 depicts a completely different era of "remote control." I'm glad TV tech improved so quickly or else, we'd still be stuck in the stone age today.

Until they were discontinued in 2009, Pioneer's Elite Kuro plasma TVs were the reference standard for picture quality. Now Sharp has struck a deal to bring back the Pioneer Elite TVs, but after reading the fine print, I suggest you wait before getting too excited.