Comment on Are you too young to remember these?

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• mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  And then you pull too hard on the power button and it comes off and you get hit/yelled at by dad

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  • Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had an old small tv like that in my bedroom. There was a dial for vhf and another for UHF. The two UHF channels we had were about 20 and 31, but I found if I dialed it all the way to 90 or so sometimes I could hear voices talking to each other. Usually just boring phone calls, I showed my friends once and we listened to my friends uncle on a call by chance, he recognised the voice and the people he was talking about.

    Then they switched mobile phones to a digital signal.

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    • recursivethinking@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Landline portable antenna phones had some prettybad channel bleed, esp if you live in an apt complex with a local Walmart - bunch of phones would all be the same cheapo Panasonic (or whatever) model and we’d hear someone pretty often if you stand in the right spot.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now that’s what I call a proper television

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My TV only had 4 button for 4 channels so once we got more than 4 channels we had to use a small wheel to change frequencies and look for them.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a new one to me. Great Britain, I assume.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unitra was a Polish brand existed during communism.

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• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was the “go find the pliers to turn the channel, cause the knob went missing last year” kid.

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  • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just kept the small vice grip clamped on it.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You were supposed to sit close enough to the tv to always reach it.

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• lyrial@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had to get up and hit it on the side with a dead blow hammer when the screen turned green as well.

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yo my dad would lay on the couch after work and scream for me or my brother to come change the channel. Those were the fucking days…

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