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    Vista Home Premium, contemplating moving to Linux
       #111

    bigmck said:
    IownAmoneyPit said:
    I remember a time when I had to climb up the tower of the antenna and change the direction of the UHF or VHF antenna by hand until someone inside hollered when the signal was clear. 10 mins later when the channel got changed...back up the tower.
    My grandparents lived on a farm in the 1960's. They were about 40 miles from five different cities with TV stations. On their roof was a motor that changed the direction of the antenna according to what station in what city was being watched. == I can see that IownAmoneyPit was brought up in the wrong house.
    The rotor got added after we had a television for about 5 years. Just two channels. A third came in if a thunderstorm was betweeen us and the station.

    There would be stuff to see on telly late at night if they would take those infomercials off the air.
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    Win7 Home Premium x64 SP1
       #112

    Lmao! i just nearly spat my tea over my keyboard a number of times
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    Vista Home Premium, contemplating moving to Linux
       #113

    Ha ! We didn't live anywhere that had moire than 2 channels, cable tv, until I was about 14 years old. 12 channels ! Yow !
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
       #114

    COMPUTIAC said:
    This came on at 2:am

    Please Stand By.jpg
    In Houston we got the first all night TV station when I was in my early 20's on one of the new UHF stations. I had a TV that would pickup UHF. It was a good line to pickup a girl, "Do you want to come over and watch some late night TV?" == It just occurred to me that the term UHF is outdated now. The normal TV had stations from 2 to 13, they were VHF. The UHF went from 14 to 99 I believe.
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    Windows 8.1.1 64bit
       #115

    Like this ?
    Last edited by COMPUTIAC; 17 Dec 2013 at 15:06.
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit - Build 7600 SP1
       #116

    The first TV that I remember had a 12 inch round (360 degree round) screen. It was great at the time. We didn't know any better.
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    Windows 8.1.1 64bit
       #117

    Yup, I now have this:
    LG 55LW6500: 55 inch Cinema 3D 1080P 240Hz LED TV with SmartTV | LG USA

    Who would ever believe it would be possible to make such a thing ?
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  8. Posts : 59
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #118

    I'm in the mid 20's crowd, but I spent plenty of time playing outside as a kid. Building forts in the woods, using my imagination to make things so much better, haha. Even indoors I was into action figures and legos. I look back and think about how much imagination was used, it's incredible. You are right though. Now kids just jump on the video games and spend hours doing that... of course so do I now... but I didn't always!

    I hate thinking about it sometimes, makes me feel old!
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    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #119

    COMPUTIAC said:
    Yup, I now have this:
    LG 55LW6500: 55 inch Cinema 3D 1080P 240Hz LED TV with SmartTV | LG USA

    Who would ever believe it would be possible to make such a thing ?
    Next stop...

    Sony 4K TV | 4K Resolution TV | Ultra HD - 3,840x2,160 Pixel Display | Sony Store USA
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  10. Posts : 1,568
    Windows 8.1.1 64bit
       #120

    Now that is a TV !
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