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Remember when TVs had knobs ?

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Tom

Lifer
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 ?
 
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.
 
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 ?
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yep... i remember... ?
 
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. 🙂
 
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. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: boyRacer
Wow you're just remembering everything tonight aren't you? :Q

Oh... my car still has knobs. 🙁
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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.
 
"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.
 
I still have one in my office, doesn't seem worth upgrading it seeing that I rarely watch TV in here...
 
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
 
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