Our first TV really did have doors. It also had a radio and a record player* built into the same cabinet. (*We didn’t call them turntables in those days.)
When I was a kid, we had two English channels and one scrambled French channel. Sometime we would watch the scrambled channel to maybe catch a glimpse of nudity.
Just how old is Peter? We had a remote controlled TV back in the ’70’s, nearly 50 years ago. Certain sounds would turn the TV on and off, change the channel, etc… The remote only had 4 buttons, but still, it was a remote. And if we happened to lose it temporarily we just pulled out the car keys.
In my youth we had 3 channels that were pretty good. Today we have 3000 or 30,000 channels , whatever. However, we don’t have 3 channels out of those 3000 that are pretty good. Go figure…..
on a related note: the first time I saw ‘The Apartment’ (1960) and Jack uses a remote control to change his tv from oater to oater to oater to … I was stunned. I’d never seen any kind of TV remote control before.
First TV I remember was a big old Zenith black and white with vacuum tubes. Every now and then it would go wonky and my dad would take the tubes up to the tube tester at the hardware store to find the bad one and replace it. I loved going with him to do those things.
LookingGlass Premium Member almost 3 years ago
And we had only 3 channels to watch!! Four, if there was a local PBS station in your area!!
:-(
allen@home almost 3 years ago
Yea kids have no idea what it was like back then. When the kid was the remote.
Templo S.U.D. almost 3 years ago
I remember in my childhood the family having a small TV set having a channels changing knob; I think it was 13 channels thereon.
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Our first TV really did have doors. It also had a radio and a record player* built into the same cabinet. (*We didn’t call them turntables in those days.)
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 3 years ago
When I was a kid, we had two English channels and one scrambled French channel. Sometime we would watch the scrambled channel to maybe catch a glimpse of nudity.
Tigressy almost 3 years ago
Tony asked, about 9 hours ago
Remember?
Yes. And even the times when it was all black and white.
Jeff0811 almost 3 years ago
Just how old is Peter? We had a remote controlled TV back in the ’70’s, nearly 50 years ago. Certain sounds would turn the TV on and off, change the channel, etc… The remote only had 4 buttons, but still, it was a remote. And if we happened to lose it temporarily we just pulled out the car keys.
Bob. almost 3 years ago
Years ago I had a TV set with channel 1. And push-button for each channel.
Jeffin Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Not only did ours have knobs, it had hobbs!
ksu71 almost 3 years ago
https://johneaves.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/johns-test-pattern.jpg
John9 almost 3 years ago
And don’t forget sometimes you had to “fine tune” the channel by adjusting with the outer “ring” of the knob. At least I had to.
PoodleGroomer almost 3 years ago
The television was in a fine furniture cabinet with a door to hide the knobs.
raybarb44 almost 3 years ago
In my youth we had 3 channels that were pretty good. Today we have 3000 or 30,000 channels , whatever. However, we don’t have 3 channels out of those 3000 that are pretty good. Go figure…..
KEA almost 3 years ago
on a related note: the first time I saw ‘The Apartment’ (1960) and Jack uses a remote control to change his tv from oater to oater to oater to … I was stunned. I’d never seen any kind of TV remote control before.
cuzinron47 almost 3 years ago
The stations finally got smart, they don’t say “Don’t touch that dial” anymore. It was confusing too many people.
Saucy1121 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
First TV I remember was a big old Zenith black and white with vacuum tubes. Every now and then it would go wonky and my dad would take the tubes up to the tube tester at the hardware store to find the bad one and replace it. I loved going with him to do those things.