Question: who on this forum still has an old cathode ray tube TV set?
I had one up until last year. It was a 32" Sharp brand. The thing must have weighed over 100 pounds. When I moved into the apartment I'm in now I actually had three CRTs. The 32", a 19" and a 13". They're all gone now. I now have a 57" flatscreen.
-when you first turned it on, you had to wait for it to "warm up" before you could see a picture;
I do.
when you turned it off, the picture quickly shrank to a small white dot in the middle of the screen and then the dot gradually faded away;
I do.
-you changed channels by turning a dial that made a loud "clunking" noise. After a few years sometimes the dial got "out of sync" so that in order to see a channel clearly you had to carefully position the dial in between two of the "clunks".
I don't remember any dials, but I do remember big buttons that made a loud clunking noise when you pressed them.
I was born in 1977, so presumably a bit later than some of you, but these types of TVs were widespread to well into the 80s.
Question: who on this forum still has an old cathode ray tube TV set?
I had one up until last year. It was a 32" Sharp brand. The thing must have weighed over 100 pounds. When I moved into the apartment I'm in now I actually had three CRTs. The 32", a 19" and a 13". They're all gone now. I now have a 57" flatscreen.
Yeah, I have one in the closet. I think its a 32" too. And yes, they weigh a TON!
Even long after I got a digital HD television I still used it. I put it in my spare room facing the street. When no one was in the house at night I would turn it on so anyone outside would think someone was in the house watching television.
Sadly the over the air signals have changed so I don't think it can pick up anything anymore without a converter of some kind.
This dates me, but I remember our first TV was a Vidor. There wasn't any means of changing channels because there was only what we now call BBC One. No "One" back then, though -- no need.
I don't know how universal this is, but when I was young to finally have your own TV in your room was quite a rite of passage.
My dad went one step further and set me up with my own TV and outdoor TV antenna! My bedroom was on the bottom floor corner of the house and he set up an 8-foot tall pole in the middle of the backyard lawn with a large antenna atop with the antenna wire running under the surface of the grass and then through my bedroom window. Now I could watch Space: 1999 in my room! LOL.
The Philco in my earlier post--it was upstairs on a stand. Our Dad brought it downstairs once on a Friday evening after he got home from work and put it on the kitchen counter so we could watch while Ma prepared dinner. I will never forget seeing JFK's coffin being transferred from the plane to the ambulance or whatever. And Jackie. It'll be 60 years ago this November.
The TV was replaced, can't recall with what, but Pops brought it downstairs another time. That's when we watched the "one small step..." live from the Moon.
I remember in the mid ‘60s when the sets came with channel selectors that only received V.H.F. channels, and my family didn’t get a set with both V.H.F. and U.H.F. channel selectors until late ‘69 (and on a General Electric B&W set, no less!). Before cable television came into prominence in the mid ‘70s, U.H.F. was the biggest thing in television.
