As Tele-vision goes

[MaryL]

Milo T. Farnsworth, (remember that guy?) and real old school television shows and manufactures of cathode ray tube television; Quasar, Zenith Philco...Speaking of Philco what about Sargent Bilko. Car 54, or Naked city? (forerunner of all procedural police dramas). Route 66.

 

[MaryL]

Quasar.

 

[MaryL]

Analog TV didn't suffer from constant "no signal" issues, either you had a signal or NOT. Binary, simple. I hate this switch to digital crap.

 

[Moonglow]

Analog TV didn't suffer from constant "no signal" issues, either you had a signal or NOT. Binary, simple. I hate this switch to digital crap.

Yeah, it's a real bitch to never have to adjust the antennae for the reception or get up and change the channel and turn it off/on/up/or down by getting up.

 

[MaryL]

Yeah, it's a real bitch to never have to adjust the antennae for the reception or get up and change the channel and turn it off/on/up/or down by getting up.

Well then, conversely, I never had to adjust a freeking thing on analog broadcast TV. No remotes involved, either you had a signal or NOT. NOW? Say, it's 8 AM and the ozone is perfect and the planets are in perfect alignment, and a truck doesn't drive by two blocks away, you put your tongue in cheek just right and stand on your left foot YOU might, you could get channel x.

 

[MaryL]

Needless to say, I miss analog TV. Analog anything. RCA connectors. AM radio.

 

[Moonglow]

Needless to say, I miss analog TV. Analog anything. RCA connectors. AM radio.

That monotone can't be beaten.

 

[MaryL]

That monotone can't be beaten.

I miss my old zenith boob tube CRT. With analog, you had certainty. You either had a signal or you didn't. Binary, yes or no. O or 1s. Signal to noise...reminds me of...

 

[toobfreak]

Milo T. Farnsworth, (remember that guy?)

Actually, I do. I'm also very familiar with John Ambrose Fleming.

 

[toobfreak]

Needless to say, I miss analog TV. Analog anything. RCA connectors. AM radio.

Well then, you'd like my house a lot; I have enough analog equipment in just my stereo system alone to knock over a gorilla.

 

[toobfreak]

My first color TV:

This thing was the bomb in its day!

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I can't say I miss old TV technology.
The square screen, low resolution, crappy color, and fighting the antenna which every time a wind storm came it would get out of sync with the "auto" tuner.
Watching sports sucked, you couldn't see the ball half the time.
No... I'll take my 4K with amazing color and resolution way-way-way over old TVs.

 

[22lcidw]

In every way the modern TV is better. However, the old analog with a few VHS network stations, and a few UHF stations combined with a PBS station in big cities was not bad. Watching half or more of the local team NHL, NBA and Baseball games a year for nothing was a steal. All of what was shown on TV was free. And the over doing of social justice idiocy and media propaganda was very finite. Cable TV when first tarted was a wonder. Today it seems you are paying a lot for many TV channels that are at least 20 minutes of commercials for an hour of entertainment.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

What I miss the most about "old tv"... would be college basketball being hosted by local channels, with local commentators who knew the players and coaches personally. And there was, of course, 1/3rd the commercials.