Comment on If it's not broken...
grue@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
These are the cables I was familiar with way back then.
Image
dan@upvote.au 11 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 :)