don't tell the cable company about the splitter

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I got PTSD from dragging one of those fuckers up three flights of stairs, back in the 80s. Had a good job, single, decided to splurge on a massive 27 incher, or whatever it was back then, without ever considering the logistics of such an operation. A lot of Yosemite Sam-style muttering that day, let me tell you.

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I got all you losers beat:

  • Console with RCA connectors or ant>RCA adapter
  • Plugged into the video-in adapter on my camcorder
  • Hooked up via firewire 400 to my sister’s 2000 iMac
  • Running in cracked video editing software
  • Didn’t know how to resize the windows, so my game only took up about 20% of the CRT

  I bet y’all can’t even handle how jealous you are of my sweaty ass being cooked by humming electronics while failing levels over and over due to unnecessary latency.

  I used this setup when I was grounded, which was frequent. Which also meant that I had to be really quick-like in setup and teardown and always had to pack everything back up when I was finished/heard the garage door open, to hide the evidence. My dad would check the temperatures of all the TVs around the house to make sure I wasn’t using them, but I was allowed to use the computer for homework and video editing.

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I have a piece of shit Sony TV. I rolled it up the stairs when I was 16, it has only been removed from it’s wheeled table a week ago I am now 26. These so so bitches weigh a lot.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  but did you ever play 4-player Mariokart64 on a…

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GoldenEye. No screen-lookin.

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    • slackassassin@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We used a splitter and covered half of each of the screens with paper.

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    • Thassodar@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because I was so naive at the time I couldn’t figure out why my brother’s friend KD always knew where I was…

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No Oddjob.

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  • Thassodar@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I played 4 player Conker’s Bad Fur day on a TV slightly bigger.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was the best multiplayer

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  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still have a TV exactly like this I keep around for my NES. My N64 is always connected to my main TV.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In 2000, at around the point when most well off people were transitioning to flat panel TVs, I inherited a large 32" CRT from a friend of mine. They were upgrading and wanted to get rid of their old CRT.

  I said I’d take it and use it for my treadmill so I could watch TV while I walked.

  The thing weighed 100lbs!!! I had to build a reinforced stand to lift it up in the air and I nearly killed myself hoisting it up and having it nearly fall on me multiple times! And the thing took up so much room … I think it occupied almost the same amount of floor space as the treadmill.

  The dangerous thing about these things is that they were big and lopsided … it’s like lifting a huge kettle ball but all the weight of the ball is only on one side and the rest of it is empty air. It was really easy to just drop the thing because you lost balance with it. Or even worse, throw your back and some muscle because you were trying to save it from falling over while you held it.

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  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had a 32" and it had a flat screen meaning the glass wasn’t curved but it wasn’t thin. It was also higher res than 480p, it was a transitional model before flat screens rolled out. It weighed 160lbs! I was moving it carrying it by myself and has to rest it on my thighs for a few seconds. They were bruised for a week.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Flat CRTs were probably even heavier than curved ones because the glass has to be thicker to hold vacuum with a less structurally-efficient shape.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My 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.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      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.

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That was the thing with these old heavy CRTs … they could take a beating … they could also give a beating.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “You mean I get this 21” monitor for free if I can carry it down five flights to my car?! Thanks mister!” - Me as a child

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    hears loud banging and glass shattering on the stairwell, as a 70 pound monitor tumbles and rolls down the stairs while 20 year old dust off the magnetron fills the air …its junk now.

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• theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yep that and massive bulky air conditioners the bane of my young back.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had one of the first hdtvs. Well it was HDTV Ready I think it was marketed as. It was essentially just a 36in 800x600 crt monitor. Had to pair it with a special directv receiver. I think it was a RCA MM36110 and the damn thing weighed nearly 200 lbs. Needless to say I’m pretty sure I left in the house I sold because it was just too damn heavy. I have a 55inch TV that feels like a toy compared to it.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My last two CRTs were 32 and 75 inches (that one was a beast and took up the whole room) I love lcds now

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• rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m a 90s kid and I still am moving my CRT around like this

  If you don’t yet own a sony trinitron, buy one while you can still afford it. These things are skyrocketing in value rn

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  • FloMo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re already hundreds and sell quickly on my local second hand markets =( I’ve given up

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    • rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I found one of these last year for $150 cad. crtdatabase.com/crts/sony/sony-kv-24fs100

      Don’t give up!!

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just bought RGB to VGA adapters for my consoles instead (and S-Video to VGA for the earlier consoles that didn’t support VGA without a mod chip). It was a lot easier to haul a 19" CRT monitor over a 25" CRT TV, due to not only being smaller, but having fewer circuitry as well since you don’t need a tuner. The image was a lot better too for obvious reasons.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, that wasn’t allowed. I had a portable at one point, and it got like two channels…

  Does anyone want to talk about the price is right?

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yeah, what was the name of the hilariously clumsy girl they had on that show for awhile?

    There was a rotating cast of interchangeable pretty women on that show whose job it was to point at the consumer goods being shamelessly advertised. One of them was hilariously bad at it; while showing off a refrigerator she’d pull out the crisper drawer then couldn’t get it back in so the door wouldn’t shut and solving that problem would pop the freezer open…she had a minor case of Tim Taylor’s disease.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  80s kids: You can pick your TV up?!

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• kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sony Trinitron. Heaviest fucking TV I’ve ever encountered.

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• HelluvaKick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I found 3 crts in my attic when I moved into my house and almost died bringing them down the ladder

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If it were me they’d still be there!

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• ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty sure splitters were allowed as long as they didn’t split into another home

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  • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, didn’t they usually not even allow for individual channel selection? I remember my grandparents having on for their basement TV. We had to watch whatever the adults were watching upstairs as kids.

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    • ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      before you needed a cable box, you could plug the coax cable directly from the wall to the TV, so starting the splitter from the wall outlet would work like I said

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    • warbond@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like they split the signal after the cable box. The original Duplicate Screen.

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wow, that sucks.

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  • dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not where I was.

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had one of the last Bravia cathode rays made. It was 38" and colossal. The move from one 3rd floor apartment to another 3rd floor apartment (no elevator in either case) convinced me to switch. I gave it away to an old buddy who thought I was exaggerating when I said bring 3 people.

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Wish I had one today. That’s expensive today.

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had a CRT in college (2008-ish) that looked pretty much identical to this. More than 32", maybe 36"? It was 720i and had component inputs, no HDMI. Lots of Smash Bros (N64) and Halo 3 was played on it. Good times.

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• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Customer not understanding the difference between a triplex and a splitter.

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