Remeber when tvs

[Lurch666]

I still think part of the magic of video games for people like us is remembering the time where TV was simply watched.
Then pong appeared in the arcades and you could play a game on a TV,then home pong units were available and at the time it was living in the future being able to play games on a TV.

Nowadays it's normal and indeed the way most games are played but to us it was a massive innovation.

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Crickey. you guys make me feel young. Just woke up after playing Street Fighter 6 against my eldest, 21 yo and still eating all my food I buy, he does remember my old Sony 25" tho. 🤘🤘🤘

But his Zangief is a complete prick and ai have to use Ryu 😆😭

 

[TheDaddy]

When i met my wife she had a black and white in her bedroom with the hudge tuning knob ! lol. I was upper class and had a colour Saisho and its was mint !!! I was 14 or so then.



I remember the days of Pong on the TV and loved playing it , When my dad got better tv I cried for days and it did not have pong !

Dave.

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

You met your wife at 14? Hope it was Chun Li.

 

[Retroman839]

We had a

When i met my wife she had a black and white in her bedroom with the hudge tuning knob ! lol. I was upper class and had a colour Saisho and its was mint !!! I was 14 or so then.

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I remember the days of Pong on the TV and loved playing it , When my dad got better tv I cried for days and it did not have pong !

Dave.

Saisho had the cool 80’s Japanese samurai bushido style knobs and buttons .. like karate after shave,
Slip on your Osaka tigers & jump in the Toyota

 

[tin]

When i met my wife she had a black and white in her bedroom with the hudge tuning knob ! lol. I was upper class and had a colour Saisho and its was mint !!! I was 14 or so then.

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I remember the days of Pong on the TV and loved playing it , When my dad got better tv I cried for days and it did not have pong !

Dave.

These were (somehow given the brand) bomb proof. Had a couple of mates who had them, one even the posh remote control version.

 

[Vamino]

My Mom used to rent a TV and VHS player from Visionhire, think it was about £15 a month or something. The VHS came with a wired remote, my Dad had exclusive control over that remote and he had to move his chair closer to the TV as the lead wasn't long enough to reach the sofa!

Pretty much every weekend we watched some pirated movie of somesort, guy at the pub my Dad went to rented them. I had my own copy of Return Of The Jedi which I probably watched every week.

 

[TheDaddy]

My Mom used to rent a TV and VHS player from Visionhire, think it was about £15 a month or something. The VHS came with a wired remote, my Dad had exclusive control over that remote and he had to move his chair closer to the TV as the lead wasn't long enough to reach the sofa!

Pretty much every weekend we watched some pirated movie of somesort, guy at the pub my Dad went to rented them. I had my own copy of Return Of The Jedi which I probably watched every week.

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Remember watching Police Academy at a friends house on this , Pillow on the lap job ! lol



Still have her stored in the old Ram Bank ! Despite using it often I don't have a NG 8 Error ..........

Dave.

 

[TheDaddy]

You met your wife at 14? Hope it was Chun Li.

My wife was Indeed 14 when i met her !!! And I was older , Gulp !! Still together today though , 2 kids youngest is 24 & eldest is 27.

And they slated us when we got together , proved them all wrong

Dave.

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

My wife was Indeed 14 when i met her !!! And I was older , Gulp !! Still together today though , 2 kids youngest is 24 & eldest is 27.

And they slated us when we got together , proved them all wrong

Dave.

So you did marry Chun Li. Lucky bastard! 😍 please tell her I like the tassly things in her hair and also the pink suit matches her eyes better than the blue, although blue is good for round the house and shopping etc.

 

[Bods]

My Mom used to rent a TV and VHS player from Visionhire, think it was about £15 a month or something. The VHS came with a wired remote, my Dad had exclusive control over that remote and he had to move his chair closer to the TV as the lead wasn't long enough to reach the sofa!

Pretty much every weekend we watched some pirated movie of somesort, guy at the pub my Dad went to rented them. I had my own copy of Return Of The Jedi which I probably watched every week.

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Other half worked at Visionhire, I was working at Granada service centre, they bought Visionhire so she ended up working where I was, she can still remember the codes they used for many of the TVs and Videos, used to have Green or Blue sticker on them, some would probably come back to me if I thought it about

I remember watching a really poor copy of ET at mates house

The days of waiting 5 years before a movie was on TV, first time I watched 1977 Star Wars and it was on October 1982, trying to think if we had a VHS then, probably not going on the Ferguson one my dad bought, first he got a Asda special Questar, first night he set the timer to record a programme, it came on recorded it, switched off and was dead after that with tape stuck in it, so that went back and he then bought the Ferguson 3V35 front loader which seems to be 1983 model, probably recorded Star Wars next time it was on and I recorded Michael Jackson Thriller when then showed that first time, we had a Tape each then with our names on and my brother being the annoying clown he is recorded over Thriller for me 🤬

 

[Spanky]

My mum, who knows nothing about such things, actually bought a Soviet-made TV, believe it or not. It was the heaviest thing you could imagine and came with a wired remote control, effectively a computer mouse with one button. Pressing this would make the channel hop up. To get to a lower channel, you'd have to click all the way through the sequence until it went back to the beginning. I took the telly apart, and there were countless circuit boards which flopped out on hinges. The PCBs were made out of some weird cardboard, and the few ICs were alien.

 

[jimmerd]

We also had very basic tv's here until about 1990 when my dad splashed out on a brand new JVC.
It was the thing to behold and had supported a 'fully wired' scart input which was later put to good use with an import SNES I picked second hand.
My friends were puzzled when the UK SNES came out with 'those terrible borders', not that it really matters.
For a laugh we would play the UK Mario Kart cartridge (which was speeded in software up to compensate between 50z/60hz) in the import SNES, it would run progressively faster for some reason.. turbo Mario kart!
That TV refused to die and was still going in 2006 when it was given away!

 

[Bods]

The Remotes used to be Ultrasonic in early days too, channel up down and maybe volume

The rediffusion TV's were nice, when my dad was looking at a new TV I said get one with remote control this time, he came back with an Ultra which was basically ferguson, 8 Pushbutton no remote
I got fed up of cleaning contacts on the push button switches after a few years, so got a rediffusion Teletext remote one cheap with worn tube as it had compatible one with the Ultra, swapped tube into that one and never had a problem with it, good technical feat on them was the Auto Adjustment of RGB as the Tube wears, it changed amount of each colour itself so greyscale on them was always perfect and never needed adjusting. not sure how it worked but it did

 

[Venom]

I was spoilt as a kid as dad did his own TV an rentals. BTW the 50p meters where to catch people up who fell behind in rent. It was all cash back then. I remember an incident with a bad debtor trying to get the TV back, and we are in agar nook in Coalville. The guy shouts at my dad, to which my dad replied I have my son in the car... Well here we go then....As a kid I met a lot of people on the Saturday rent day ! I got given lots of presents like star wars toys, as a lot of the palitoy workers rented off my dad. I actually destroyed a TV by dropping the 50 p dish into the TV, case and all. Its hard to get that kind of experience now . My pet hate is people ordering beers to be delivered and not saying thank you or acknowledging the server.

 

[Retroman839]

Nice perk to get them toys from the palitoy Staff!
And yeah your Dad must have had a few sketchy houses where collecting was a bit dodgy.

 

[kuato_lives]

Was browsing an antiques shop today and spotted these CRTs. The “tube cube” looks like it was designed by Rand Peltzer 😂

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

 

[kingtreelo]

few really dodgy posts in this thread, and none of them to do with tellys

i was more interested in doing tape to tape recordings back in the 80s

 

[Retroman839]

My mate did tape button mixing.
Back in the day .

I fitted a kitchen for a professor in
Electronic music at a university in Oxford.
He had a few moogs and other synths running in a room upstairs ..

I got chatting with him and
He explains to me how the lady
That created the doctor who them tune
Was visiting the students, and she had
Originally created the tune by taping dat cassette tape together with cello tape To make that tune.