I am this many years old.I have that exact model with my 2600!
crumbles into dust
I am this old as well but there’s a reason I always have a screwdriver handy
Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!
I feel simultaneously seen and called out.
Before my time but I did run across these as a kid. Even played a few games, too.
Came here to post this.
What channel would you use? I always used channel three and swore channel four gave a worse signal.
In my area channel 4 had a TV station on it and channel 3 didn’t, so channel 3 was the available default for these things.
That explains the slight interference I was getting. There must have been a signal just in range to scramble things but not close enough to see or hear. Our stations were on 12, 6 and 10 and you could get PBS on 32 on UHF.
I seem to remember the NES having a similar splitter?
Beat me to it. Life got really good when I could upgrade from the small kitchen B/W set to a color one.
Came here to say the same
I’m this old.
But did you have separate VHF and UHF connectors on the back?
Separate nobs for UHF and VHF as well.
I believe there was a toggle switch on set controls (no remote).
We just had the twin lead wire coming from the antenna on the roof, through the wall, and hooked to the back of the TV. We didn’t get a color TV until I was about eight years old. My mom didn’t like the color, she thought they looked wrong, so we had black and white until she saw a Sony TV. (Early 70s)
The old B&W TV looked something like this:
This was our first VCR. I think this was the first digital clock we had in the house, too:
Whoa… Not flashing 12:00, check out Linus Torvalds here.
LOL. That’s not a picture of our actual VCR, just one of the same model.
But, my dad was an aircraft mechanic. He knew his way around tech well enough. Our clocks were always set correctly, as it happens.
Everything back then weighed 80-100lbs.
Except tvs, they weighed even more.
I am this old.
I totally saw a boob!
Are you sure? It might have been an elbow.
I think you are watching some illegal channels
Dude, I had that but didn’t need it most of the time because on saturday after midnight on the French channels you would always get softcore porn like Emanuelle or something similar. I guess growing up in Quebec had its perks after all. Lol
As a boy I had to stand up and walk to the TV to switch channel pressing buttons. No remote.
And then you pull too hard on the power button and it comes off and you get hit/yelled at by dad
I had an old small tv like that in my bedroom. There was a dial for vhf and another for UHF. The two UHF channels we had were about 20 and 31, but I found if I dialed it all the way to 90 or so sometimes I could hear voices talking to each other. Usually just boring phone calls, I showed my friends once and we listened to my friends uncle on a call by chance, he recognised the voice and the people he was talking about.
Then they switched mobile phones to a digital signal.
Landline portable antenna phones had some prettybad channel bleed, esp if you live in an apt complex with a local Walmart - bunch of phones would all be the same cheapo Panasonic (or whatever) model and we’d hear someone pretty often if you stand in the right spot.
Now that’s what I call a proper television
I was the “go find the pliers to turn the channel, cause the knob went missing last year” kid.
Just kept the small vice grip clamped on it.
You were supposed to sit close enough to the tv to always reach it.
Yo my dad would lay on the couch after work and scream for me or my brother to come change the channel. Those were the fucking days…
I must be too young, I grew up on this:
SCART was ahead of its time. You could control connected devices with it like HDMI CEC. You could wake up devices through it. You could daisy chain devices together with it. A TV could sent its TV signal down to a SCART connected device from its tuner! No equivalent for this exists today, unless there’s TV that do HDMI OUT! By the end, it could do 1080p!
Was it able to shock me with one end connected or is it just a false memory.
It probably had a good reason to shock you! /s.
By design, SCART carries low voltage, not enough to shock someone. The device it was connected to could have been faulty or badly grounded and leaked higher voltage into the connector though. So its plausible.I think some old double insulated devices have power supply issues that meant that the ground/plug-shell would be energized at half mains voltage. You wouldn’t notice since the rest of the TV was wood/plastic, not metal, but if you touched the metal on the back you would get shocked.
I combined those 3 plugs into this with a small plug.
Does this answer your question?
Also I don’t think composite is that old tbf.
Ooh, I get to trot out my console humblebragging picture again.
A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!
What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.
Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.
Created in 1954–1956 in wiki is correct
“created” and “in mainstream use” are two different things… composite video has been around for a very long time, but composite video on consumer electronics really only started to get popular maybe starting in the late-80’s. I worked at a Radio Shack in the early 00’s and was still explaining to people how to use it because their old VCR only had coax and they used it on channel 3 or 4. The fact that “just match the colours” was so confusing to these people was … well… yeah.
I have the same answer 😅
I’m this old
SCART is newer than composite, though…
Didn’t say they were the oldest, just that they are that old
I am this old.
I’m this old - old TV, new for the time console
Channel 3
Definitely had this as well.
I had RF adapters for my NES…
I had to get a new TV since my old one had the two screw posts that the Atari hooked up to.
I’m also this old.
Oh a simpler time. When nothing needed to update, billion/trillionaires didn’t exist, and no one was trying to steal every normal of your data to rip you off and con you politically. I miss riding bikes till the street lights came on.
Rockefeller became the country’s first billionaire on 28 September 1916
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
Remember the warm glow of the yellow/orange street lights? There gone now too, just like the hummingbirds and the fireflies.
Why did you have to shatter the small bit of perceived relief I had!!??
Thought you might want to know. Information is power.
100%. It is always better to know. I think that’s what draws us all to this place.
At the same time, fuuuuuck man. 😔
I think capitalism is humanities terminal illness.
So much potential wasted.
This was the era of robber barons, not long after this the US actually did something about these people, including some of the best progressive tax rates the US probably ever saw.
For example in 1951 if you had an income of $400,000, every dollar you made beyond that was taxed at 91%. That doesn’t necessarily mean they paid that much, but they paid a lot more than they do nowadays.
Maybe 30 years after our first trillionaire will get our s*** together again, or maybe not.
“Now I know!”
“And knowing is half the battle!”
I’m quite a bit older than those
I am SCART old
Yellow is video. White is left channel audio. Red is right channel audio.
Reminds me, I should go through my old box of DVDs and do some cleaning.
