Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 days agoMy dad an en excellent 24" Panasonic he got a few years agter he died. We moved it across the Midwest 6 times from 95-2010 until we finally replaced it with a 42" led after moving to Kansas City. So my brother and i got to take it downstairs and play Halo Reach and Black Ops on it. They might have been heavy and a bitch to move, but they were awesome TV’s that could take a beating.
Until one day, you turn it on, and without warning, you are presented with half a screen, or a single white line across the middle. Sound is optional.
I used to put all my change in a big jar, which was reserved for my next TV. When my current one crapped out, I’d listen to music while I rolled up my change, and go buy a new one somewhere. If I happened to be flush, maybe I’d add a bit more and get the next size up.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
That was the thing with these old heavy CRTs … they could take a beating … they could also give a beating.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
have you really used a CRT if you haven’t learned how to smack it back into working?
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Good ol percussion maintenance
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
lol … I had a few family members with that mentality … you gave it a few gentle smacks to try to coax it to work and often it did work … but when it didn’t, they’d hit it harder, then harder, then harder until the screen just turned into horizontal or diagonal static which usually meant the thing was destroyed.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sounds like they didn’t know how to hit it right to me
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 days ago
I think the difference is that they where build to be repairable. Back in the 70s and 80s a large screen tv was a status symbol, and a top end model could cost multiple months of salary and last 10 years or more.