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grue@lemmy.world 8 months agoif that TV was recent enough to be “cable ready”
It has dials. The kind that make an audible thunk when you change the channel. You think there’s really a chance of it being cable-ready?!
odelik@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Yes, I had a TV in the 80s that had vhf/uhf tuning dials and coax as qell since it was “cable ready”. Transitional era technology is fun like that.
dan@upvote.au 8 months ago
Prongs? I had to look that up since I hadn’t heard of a VHF/UHF connection with prongs before. That doesn’t seem very friendly compared to just using a regular plug? In Australia we used these connectors: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector
odelik@lemmy.today 8 months ago
These are the cables I was familiar with way back then.
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dan@upvote.au 8 months ago
Wow, interesting. I don’t think we had those in Australia. I was born in the very early 90s but my mum had a TV from the 1960s and it had a regular plug (like the one I linked to) for the antenna. Those prongs don’t seem user-friendly :)