You kids today have it made...

[strollin]

At one time we had 2 B&W TVs stacked on top of each other. One had picture but no sound, the other, sound but no picture. When we wanted to change channels we had to change both TVs as well as fine tune.

 

[Forz19]

One had picture but no sound, the other, sound but no picture. When we wanted to change channels we had to change both TVs as well as fine tune.

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

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.

 

[Forz19]

That's why our previous gen was a lot more fit than we (this gen) are.

 

[bigmck]

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.

 

[Borg 386]

Oh yes, I remember the days of B & W TV, limited channels, no remote control and having to take tubes to the store to test them. Did anyone put "aluminum foil loops" on their rabbit ears to improve reception?

Most of the stores that carried TV Tubes had a free machine where you could plug your tubes into & hit the test button. The top of the machine had a least 20 different type of sockets where you had to find the one that fit your tube through a small reference manual attached to the side.

We had the regular channels (ABC, NBC, CBS & a couple others) & that was it. No recording devices meant when a program you wanted to see came on the night you wanted to go out, you had to make a choice.

So nowadays we have cable or satellite reception with about 200+ channels & you still hear kids say "There's nothing on TV!" :sarc:

 

[strollin]

My dad had 2 remotes for our TV, my sister and I! I kid you not, there were times that we were called out from our bedrooms to the living room in order to change the channel on the TV.

 

[bigmck]

My dad had 2 remotes for our TV, my sister and I! I kid you not, there were times that we were called out from our bedrooms to the living room in order to change the channel on the TV.

It all makes sense now.....Strollin from the bedroom to the living room

 

[COMPUTIAC]

This came on at 2:am

Please Stand By.jpg

 

[JimJoe]

This came on at 2:am

Please Stand By.jpg

It came on, when I was a kid, at 10 PM, because the broadcasters' license didn't allow them to transmitt television after 10 PM. Then it went to midnight on Friday and Saturday. It was considered a Really Big Deal when television was allowed to go on 24 hours.

Some of the things I saw early Saturday morning were a shoe shiner modern dance. A small group of women doing ballet with just a piano playing. The local farm report, then the cartoons came on at 6 AM local.

 

[JimJoe]

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.

 

[ganjiry]

Lmao! i just nearly spat my tea over my keyboard a number of times

 

[JimJoe]

Ha ! We didn't live anywhere that had moire than 2 channels, cable tv, until I was about 14 years old. 12 channels ! Yow !

 

[bigmck]

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.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

Like this ?

 

[bigmck]

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.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

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 ?

 

[Gadsdan]

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!

 

[Gadsdan]

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

 

[COMPUTIAC]

Now that is a TV !