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What did your families' tv look like growing up?
Posted on 11/21/18 at 9:53 am
Posted on 11/21/18 at 9:53 am
It blows my mind how much TVs have changed in my lifetime. I'm 30 so my earliest memories of the tv are of Mr Rodgers in the early 90s.
The TV looked something like this
My parents replaced it in 2000 with a 27 inch tv and we thought it was huge. It got moved in to the game room. My mom caught me and my little brother watching porn on VHS on it and she killed the tv with a hatchet. RIP.
The tv I got for my dorm in 2007 looked like this
I never gave much though to how quickly tv tech advanced over my lifetime until I saw the old tv in a family picture
My first ~20 years of life they didnt change that much but the last 10 years they have jumped by lightyears.
The TV looked something like this
My parents replaced it in 2000 with a 27 inch tv and we thought it was huge. It got moved in to the game room. My mom caught me and my little brother watching porn on VHS on it and she killed the tv with a hatchet. RIP.
The tv I got for my dorm in 2007 looked like this
I never gave much though to how quickly tv tech advanced over my lifetime until I saw the old tv in a family picture
My first ~20 years of life they didnt change that much but the last 10 years they have jumped by lightyears.
This post was edited on 11/21/18 at 9:55 am
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Posted on 11/21/18 at 9:54 am to celltech1981
Like a TV
Posted on 11/21/18 at 9:55 am to celltech1981
We had a massive Sony from like 1994 to 2009. It was as large as a tiny house. My parents didn't want to replace it because it was too heavy.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 9:55 am to celltech1981
We had an rca. I don’t remember what the tv looked like but the remote was the size of a laptop computer. This is mid-80’s to mid-90’s.
ETA: This was the remote. We only had a tv so I just assumed you had to be super rich to have all the other stuff this thing could control....
ETA: This was the remote. We only had a tv so I just assumed you had to be super rich to have all the other stuff this thing could control....
This post was edited on 11/21/18 at 10:10 am
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:00 am to celltech1981
Console TV's were the best. We had a Zenith like this with the ultrasonic clicker remote except I rolled with George Plimpton and the Intellivision crew.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:02 am to celltech1981
We had one of those zenith console TVs.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:04 am to celltech1981
In a word, OverKill.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:05 am to celltech1981
Ha. Our main one was a corner version with the speaker underneath.
Still have it in somewhere in storage. One day it'll have an old nintendo hooked up to it, and me sitting in front of it indian style for hours.
Still have it in somewhere in storage. One day it'll have an old nintendo hooked up to it, and me sitting in front of it indian style for hours.
This post was edited on 11/21/18 at 10:21 am
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:05 am to celltech1981
Every Saturday morning, in front of this with a bowl of cereal.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:06 am to celltech1981
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:07 am to celltech1981
When I read the thread title I just assumed it was another Oweo thread
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:08 am to celltech1981
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:09 am to celltech1981
When I was a kid we had one of those 50's model black and white TV's that had about a 19 inch screen.
I remember when my godfather got a new TV he gave his Zenith console color TV to us and it was a massive thing with a 25 inch screen. We thought we were in hog heaven when we watched shows on that thing.
I remember when my godfather got a new TV he gave his Zenith console color TV to us and it was a massive thing with a 25 inch screen. We thought we were in hog heaven when we watched shows on that thing.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:12 am to celltech1981
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:16 am to celltech1981
Black and white with two channels. Screen was maybe 19 inches. I was the remote control. I remember my uncle getting a color TV and all the relatives going to his house to watch Bonanza, which was one of the few shows that were in color.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:17 am to celltech1981
It was a huge console TV and I had to smack the side of it to get the color right.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:27 am to celltech1981
This is the first remote I remember:
Before there was infra-red, there was ultrasonic, and it was worse.
Before there was infra-red, there was ultrasonic, and it was worse.
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:42 am to celltech1981
From when I was born until I was 7, we only had a black and white TV, a floor unit with legs. It looked a lot like this:
And living in smaller places like Starkville, Columbus and Pearl, MS, we didn't have all the networks-- just whatever networks were broadcast in our vicinity. I know we had no ABC in Jackson in 1971.
My parents divorced and my mom remarried in 1972. My new stepfather had a color TV that was considered "portable" (it actually had a retractable handle on top) but it was big and the screen was a decent size, probably a 19 inch. It looked a lot like this:
That was our "family TV" until I went away to college in 1982; it went into a designed spot on a shelf system hand-built by my stepfather. In 1976 or so a PONG game was added, and in 1979 the cable box was added.
Of course, in my early teens I got a helluva Christmas present-- a small B&W TV for my room. That was really something back then. Probably was a 12 inch model, looked a lot like this:
And living in smaller places like Starkville, Columbus and Pearl, MS, we didn't have all the networks-- just whatever networks were broadcast in our vicinity. I know we had no ABC in Jackson in 1971.
My parents divorced and my mom remarried in 1972. My new stepfather had a color TV that was considered "portable" (it actually had a retractable handle on top) but it was big and the screen was a decent size, probably a 19 inch. It looked a lot like this:
That was our "family TV" until I went away to college in 1982; it went into a designed spot on a shelf system hand-built by my stepfather. In 1976 or so a PONG game was added, and in 1979 the cable box was added.
Of course, in my early teens I got a helluva Christmas present-- a small B&W TV for my room. That was really something back then. Probably was a 12 inch model, looked a lot like this:
Posted on 11/21/18 at 10:57 am to BRich
Posted on 11/21/18 at 11:24 am to celltech1981
We had normal 20" 400lb bricks of a TV and the one in my room as a kid you had to change the channel with the dial on the front...
Now when I bought my first place I went out and got a 55" Mitsubishi TV …. It was literally the size of a prius… and when i sold it they guy had the dolly it up in a trailer...
Now my Living room TV is 65" and my 11 yr old can lift it.
Now when I bought my first place I went out and got a 55" Mitsubishi TV …. It was literally the size of a prius… and when i sold it they guy had the dolly it up in a trailer...
Now my Living room TV is 65" and my 11 yr old can lift it.
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