Remember when TVs had knobs ?

[Tom]

And you would turn them on when you got home, go make dinner, set up the tv trays, and by then you could just start to see the picture ?

 

[thirtythree]

Remember when TVs had knobs ?

No.

 

[JC]

Ah yes, vacuum tubes

 

[boyRacer]

Wow you're just remembering everything tonight aren't you? :Q

Oh... my car still has knobs.

 

[PCMarine]

Originally posted by: Deslocke

Remember when TVs had knobs ?

No.

Im with you

 

[SSP]

I used one of those for my SNES and threw it away 2 years ago.

 

[Rudee]

Had a old black and white tv in my bedroom as a kid. It would take about 30 seconds to warm up to a normal picture. And when you turned it off, it would go grey, then black, then shrink to a tiny white dot in the middle of the screen, then finally turn off.

 

[rh71]

Back to the Future had 1. It played re-runs.

 

[tbates757]

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
And you would turn them on when you got home, go make dinner, set up the tv trays, and by then you could just start to see the picture ?

yep... i remember... ?

 

[Wingznut]

Oh yeah, I remember 'em.

And most of them, you had to smack them in the side occasionally to get the picture back to normal. After a while, you'd learn exactly how AND where to hit it, so that you could hit it just right and fix it the first time.

 

[Tom]

I fell off a console tv like that and broke my arm.

(it's better now)

 

[JayPatel]

they make TV's without knobs?

 

[Wingznut]

Oh yeah, and it was always a blast when I could help my dad take tubes down to the local hardware store and put them in the "tester" which seemed about the size of a small car.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: boyRacer
Wow you're just remembering everything tonight aren't you? :Q

Oh... my car still has knobs.

Really? My car has mostly buttons and switches. The only knobs left are for the radio and the lights, and I'll bet that those are controlled digitaly as well.

Anyway, I think that it would be really cool if someone released a "retro look" TV, which would have some nice wood trim and chrome plated knobs. Sure, it would still have all of the modern electronics inside, but it would look cool with the right decor.

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: JC
Ah yes, vacuum tubes

 

[Tom]

"And most of them, you had to smack them in the side occasionally to get the picture back to normal."

Yea, but you new it was still working even though the picture was out because you could see things that glowed through the louvers in the back.

 

[LSUfan]

Yes playing pong on those was just too cool

 

[Skel]

I still have one in my office, doesn't seem worth upgrading it seeing that I rarely watch TV in here...

 

[Justin218]

I have a knob on my pc, it's a rheostat for the fan I remember the knob tvs, but only because my grandpa had one until I was about 3

 

[Kev]

and you would have VHF and UHF!! crazy stuff.


"Assume Fox viewing positions"

 

[FrustratedUser]

Used to use a black and white with the C128/C64 back in the days.

 

[Moonbeam]

I remember many a knob job at the antique electronics store my girlfriend worked at.

 

[eplebnista]

Remember when TVs had knobs ?

Yes.

 

[Orsorum]

I had knobs once. Man, that was a bitch.

 

[AvesPKS]

You mean your TV doesn't have knobs?