You are old if you remember this about TV

by AR » Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:16 am

Ghosting

Snow

Co-channel interference

Electrical Interference (Mom running the vacuum cleaner again)

by **cudaclan** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:50 am

My recollections was black & white, no remote and yes, allot less channels. Now we have plasma, HD, digital and touch screen remotes with over 200 channels of garbage that you flip through in speed dial mode.

by **Don** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:12 am

I remember my grandparents were the first ones to get cable.

by **Behshad** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:12 am

cudaclan wrote:My recollections was black & white, no remote and yes, allot less channels. Now we have plasma, HD, digital and touch screen remotes with over 200 channels of garbage that you flip through in speed dial mode.

With tons of crap on every one of them !

Out of curiousity ,I once flipped through 100 channels and 84 of them were either commercials or infomercials! :shock:

by **Monker** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:15 am

Behshad wrote:
cudaclan wrote:My recollections was black & white, no remote and yes, allot less channels. Now we have plasma, HD, digital and touch screen remotes with over 200 channels of garbage that you flip through in speed dial mode.

With tons of crap on every one of them !

Out of curiousity ,I once flipped through 100 channels and 84 of them were either commercials or infomercials!

Which are now replaced by various versions of Home Shopping Network and Cartoon Network.

by **Journey Mom** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:44 am

This confirms my suspicions that I've gotten old. I remember being so excited when we got our first color tv right before Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I was so disappointed that the video coming back from there was in black and white.

by **Behshad** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:48 am

Journey Mom wrote:This confirms my suspicions that I've gotten old. I remember being so excited when we first got fire . Meat tasted totally different cooked !

by **Behshad** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:23 am

Fact Finder wrote:I was 8 or so (1948), when mom and dad somehow found the money to get a little B&W TV for my bedroom. It was a dial TV with a remote that when you clicked it, the dial turned. One time as I was getting dressed, I was apparently standing just right, and when I zipped up my pants the TV changed channels. That was a hoot. After figuring out I could change the channel by zipping or un-zipping my pants, I did it all the time. Freak my friends right the fuck out.

I remember all we got on the TV was 5, 9, and 12 and later on we were so excited to get 19, which back then was called cable. Four whole channels, but those damn 4 channels brought me into my teens with Midnight Special and Don Kirschner's Rock Concerts. Man it was great. Everyday after school we'd come home and watch the Beverly Hillbillies, Gomer Pyle, Petticoat Junction and others on this new found cable 19.

VCR's...hell we didn't need VCR's, we just waited for the seasons to end and breathlessly read the TV Guide every week for upcoming repeats of our favorites. We'd get that TV Guide every week at the IGA store and the first thing I did was flip to Friday and Saturday's late night to see who was on Midnight Special or Don K's, I also of course had to know what the Saturday game of the Week in basball was carrying and also Sundays football game schedule. Hell, we didn't even have Monday Night Football when I was young. Wide World of Sports was almost a Saturday staple and of course I had to suffer through my sis and Parents watching McMillan and Wife, Carol Burnett, Rowan and Martin and yes, Hee Haw.

great story , Old man

by **TRAGChick** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:47 am

Yup....

I remember ALL of that "TV interference" BS :lol:

The one thing I remember about the TV Guide was:
They would take up a half-page on Sunday Football Games - they would list everyone's name & their position.

I was especially interested in the Oakland Raiders....because this was my last name before I was Married.

AND YES...I do realize that he met a troubled end - I'm talking about back in the day....when I was in 5th Grade:

by **tater1977** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:02 pm

B & W tv with ears..If the reception got too bad..lol I remenber dad putting aluminum foil on the ears and re-adjusting them..

One day dad came home & crawled up on the roof & put up a new antennae..He came back down with this cable attached to it..Then hooked it up to a dial box ..he set on top of the tv & plugged it in...
the box lit up as you turned the dial...it turned the antennae automatically...
so no more aluminum foil on the ears...

For Apollo 11's moonwalk ..dad brought out his 8mm & set up the stand in front of the tv and filmed it all till they took off from the moon.. I broke my kneecap that year & was hobbling around on crutches..so I got to babysit the 8mm cam in case it ran out of film...

:lol:

by **No Surprize** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:12 pm

Behshad wrote:
Journey Mom wrote:This confirms my suspicions that I've gotten old. I remember being so excited when we first got fire . Meat tasted totally different cooked !

Great. LOL.

I remember it well. Actually having to get up to turn the channel. When I mentioned to my kid years ago about having to do that he asked, "How did you do that"?

Told him it had a dial, you got your ass up off the couch, turned the dial, banged on the side to get the picture fine tuned, if that didn't work you walked your ass

outside and turned the antenna until someone yelled, "THAT's IT, RIGHT THERE, LEAVE IT", then you resumed watching Gomer Pyle, USMC!

by **annie89509** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:34 pm

TRAGChick wrote:Yup....

I remember ALL of that "TV interference" BS

The one thing I remember about the TV Guide was:
They would take up a half-page on Sunday Football Games - they would list everyone's name & their position.

I was especially interested in the Oakland Raiders....because this was my last name before I was Married.
AND YES...I do realize that he met a troubled end - I'm talking about back in the day....when I was in 5th Grade:

Haha...Jim Otto (Double 0) is who I remember as playing Center for the Raiders like from the beginning...'60s-'70s (HOF'er, too). Dave Dalby, I vaguely remember. Did he come after Otto?

by **TRAGChick** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:35 pm

annie89509 wrote:
TRAGChick wrote:Yup....

I remember ALL of that "TV interference" BS

The one thing I remember about the TV Guide was:
They would take up a half-page on Sunday Football Games - they would list everyone's name & their position.

I was especially interested in the Oakland Raiders....because this was my last name before I was Married.
AND YES...I do realize that he met a troubled end - I'm talking about back in the day....when I was in 5th Grade:

Haha...Jim Otto (Double 0) is who I remember as playing Center for the Raiders like from the beginning...'60s-'70s (HOF'er, too). Dave Dalby, I vaguely remember. Did he come after Otto?

Perhaps.

I'm talking 1977 and beyond...that's all I know... :oops:

by **Angel** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:37 pm

AR wrote:Ghosting

Snow

Co-channel interference

Electrical Interference (Mom running the vacuum cleaner again)

There are things I miss about that time.....

by AR » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:42 pm

I remember being in my basement watching channel 45 UFF Baltimore while my mom was playing keyboard and accorrdian and I was playing my Elvis and Neil Diamond albums when I was around 5 or 6 years old.

by **Angel** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:45 pm

I remember coming home from school and watching Tom & Jerry, Brady Bunch, Little House on the Prairie, and Three's Company....then it was time for dinner, then I had to do my homework.

by **annie89509** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:12 pm

TRAGChick wrote:
annie89509 wrote:
TRAGChick wrote:Yup....

I remember ALL of that "TV interference" BS

The one thing I remember about the TV Guide was:
They would take up a half-page on Sunday Football Games - they would list everyone's name & their position.

I was especially interested in the Oakland Raiders....because this was my last name before I was Married.
AND YES...I do realize that he met a troubled end - I'm talking about back in the day....when I was in 5th Grade:

Haha...Jim Otto (Double 0) is who I remember as playing Center for the Raiders like from the beginning...'60s-'70s (HOF'er, too). Dave Dalby, I vaguely remember. Did he come after Otto?

Perhaps.

I'm talking 1977 and beyond...that's all I know...

Yes, he played Center after Otto. I'm a lot older than you, Nora :lol:

by **hoagiepete** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:30 am

I also was going to mention the rabbit ears with aluminum foil. We only recieved one clear channel (CBS) and two fuzzy ones. Then came PBS, of course it was clear, since it was boring as hell for a 10 year old. Too old for Sesame Street and much to young for the normal programming.

Remember having a hard time figuring out who was who when the Eagles played the Cardinals. On a fuzzy B&W screen, their uniforms and helmets looked too much alike.

MR

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