If you grew up in the 80s, you would have been used to having to choose between your favourite programmes, as you could only watch one.
You wouldn’t have had the luxury of fast forwarding, pausing or recording one programme whilst watching another. Christmas would be stressful as all your favourite films would be shown at the same time, and you had to sacrifice one for the other.
If you were out, or went on holiday, you could not record any shows, and you simply missed them.