Good god that was a long story about nothing much. No I would not be embarrassed. I would keep the telly and keep turning it on at random times just to pee everyone off.
how old this tv, if it was an analogue "pre digital" it would not work anyway
as one person said would like to know the make and model.
cant think of any tube tv that would handle that
I think you can (or could) buy digital TV tuners with a SCART output - you could watch live TV via that. In the early days of digital TV the recorders still had SCART output. At 7am you tune your recorder to TV and your TV input to SCART.