offgriddle
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AFTER A SUCCESSFUL career in acting ..
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Or tube radios and B&W TV...
erik.calco
Solar Badger
VHS you insensitive clod
erik.calco
Solar Badger
I was born in the modern era of wired remotes.
Big living room cabinet tv, with the clicker... NOT A REMOTE CONTROL... it had two buttons... click for on/off, and one for channel switch... volume had to be adjusted at the set...
Not in 1978...VHS you insensitive clod
We had two of these one at a friends house in the states to record shows and mail them to us in Iran... and one to play them... same timer on top as well...
offgriddle
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Interesting Gnu, the CRT, Cathode Ray Tube, I guess would be referred to as a CRV by persons that refer to tubes as valves. TV's became a fixture of US society during the 1950's and it's interesting that they didn't come around in your neck of the woods until approximately ten years later. Wots, "HMV"?
offgriddle
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If only I had known that operating the beta max was so easy I would have spent much more of my life spectating!
offgriddle
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Tres simple indeed SVT! I used to use a remote that had only one, spring loaded slide button. When you slid the button ahead with your thumb, the spring loaded and then disengaged banging together two, metal, tuning rods inside of the remote, thus, using an audible tone to change the channel! I think it was an RCA and I think that whistling at the right frequency could also change the channel!
offgriddle
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I'm from the transistor generation though there were still plenty of receivers and amps around with tube finals. In those days Pioneer used to build a high quality receiver with tube finals; had more chrome and steel than a Buick and you could toast bread and heat up soup on it!
offgriddle
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Ok, I giggled His Masters Voice and didn't really come up with anything much, is HMV a record label, a dog, a TV show a television station??!!
PHoganDive
Solar Enthusiast
Those Highway movies were on 16mm film and projector when I saw them...lol.
The only video tape machines back then were freezer chest sized units used by the networks.
PHoganDive
Solar Enthusiast
For a long while after transistorized sets came out, tubes were still used in the high voltage and power sections of the TV set as adequate semiconductor devices didn't yet exist. One of the last holdouts was the flyback tube. It ran the horizontal oscillator for the TV scanning deflection coils, and also fed a flyback transformer that generated the high voltage needed for the picture tube (about 25.000 volts on a big picture tube).
MrNatural22
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Growing up in the sixties my ole man had four different remotes.
Me and my three other siblings.
It operated with a shoe.
When he wanted a channel change or volume control and we were hypnotically transfixed on the wondrous magical box, a shoe always got our attention. LOL ?
No batteries required.
MrNatural22
?SW sunshine =⚡️⚡️lit up thru the darkness✌️
I also remember over at a cousins house he used different tuning forks that changed Channel’s and did the volume on his tv. He’d just tap one on a beer can and tada ! The tv responded.
Weird ?
Weird ?
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