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Are you too young to remember these?

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m “turn to channel 3” old…

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    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You could feel the static charge shift when changing channels

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah which explains my hair in those days

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    • will@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah but I had a knock off brans

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      TVs had channels?

      I’m old enough to remember Saturday morning cartoons, but seriously, it feels like TVs don’t really have channels anymore, and instead just have thousands of shitty streaming apps.

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s been about 20 years since I watched cable/broadcast TV in my home. But yeah way back tvs didn’t have inputs for other devices, instead you had a box which you put in between the antenna or cable signal and your device which basically over wrote channel 3(why channel 3? I have no idea) with whatever your device was out putting. So if you wanted to play Nintendo you would change to channel 3 and see Mario or metroid.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We forget how much TV was boring AF.

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      • modus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They still do if you use an antenna.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unless you were in Cleveland…then it was Channel 4.

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Really? Interesting. We’re there other places or other channels like that? Like if you were in England or India did they do channel 3, channel 4, or something totally different?

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      • sik0fewl@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Was there a station that broadcast on channel 3? I remember TVs growing up often (always?) having support for both channels 3 and 4 as auxiliary inputs. Also, what happened to channels 1 and 2?

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But I just got comfortable!

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Just be happy you don’t have to move the rabbit ears around till I get a good image

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    • tresspass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m gen z but just set up tvheadend after unsubscribing from any remaining streaming services. Learning there is free tv over the air was a shock to me

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The real age here is the “turn” part of the comment.

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wait current tvs don’t have a channel knob?

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    • DrPop@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sometimes I used channel 4 if the signal wasn’t working. Coaxials were shitty.

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Which is worse? Coaxials or Co workers?

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  • lemmy_at_em@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image I am this many years old.

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    • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am this old as well but there’s a reason I always have a screwdriver handy

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      • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have that exact model with my 2600!

      crumbles into dust

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      • blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I modified my 2600 to have compositie output instead. It also slightly improves the video quality

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    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My brother/sister thank you, that takes me back. Had the og Nintendo going through that

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    • nickiwest@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I feel simultaneously seen and called out.

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    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Before my time but I did run across these as a kid. Even played a few games, too.

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Came here to post this.

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    • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Came here to say the same

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    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Jeez. You old! Damn, me too. Nowadays such a device would be 79,99 ans surely sold separately. Without cables of course.

      As far as I remember that thing came with the 2600, no?

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    • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What channel would you use? I always used channel three and swore channel four gave a worse signal.

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      • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        In my area channel 4 had a TV station on it and channel 3 didn’t, se channel 3 was the available default for these things.

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Beat me to it. Life got really good when I could upgrade from the small kitchen B/W set to a color one.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This was the only thing station included up till and including the fucking Jaguar.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    dude… i hooked up my sega master system II to my TV up the Antenna port with that little switch box.

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
      Attachment: media.fedia.io ↗
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      • KingGordon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This guy olds.

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This. This is how old. OP needs to get off my lawn.

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      • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There it is!

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      • mastertigurius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Switch over for a quick round of Alex Kidd in Miracle World at my friend’s place. I found it so fascinating after manually switching cables between the antenna and Commodore 64 at home.

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    • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Same. Except Atari, and Nintendo too

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      • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Same. Except generic Pong console.

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      • banazir@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Spectravideo and NES for me.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m this old.

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    • kboos1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But did you have separate VHF and UHF connectors on the back?

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      • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I believe there was a toggle switch on set controls (no remote).

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      • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Separate nobs for UHF and VHF as well.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We just had the twin lead wire coming from the antenna on the roof, through the wall, and hooked to the back of the TV. (Early 70s)

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Whoa… Not flashing 12:00, check out Linus Torvalds here.

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      • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        LOL. That’s not a picture of our actual VCR, just one of the same model.

        But, my dad was an aircraft mechanic. He knew his way around tech well enough. Our clocks were always set correctly, as it happens.

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My parents had a b&w TV into the mid 80s.

      When they got a colour TV it also coincided with getting a Commodore 64, so naturally they suggested using the old TV for the computer.

      Funny thing is that the C64 colour palette was prepared for this. The 16 colours weren’t just random picks on the colour wheel, they also functioned as 4 different shades when shown on b&w.

      Shortly after we did get the proper monitor but it still had a switch so you could still check how the your graphics looked in b&w.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does this answer your question?

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    Also I don’t think composite is that old tbf.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ooh, I get to trot out my console humblebragging picture again.

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    • mobyduck648@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!

      What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.

      Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.

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    • ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Created in 1954–1956 in wiki is correct

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      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “created” and “in mainstream use” are two different things… composite video has been around for a very long time, but composite video on consumer electronics really only started to get popular maybe starting in the late-80’s. I worked at a Radio Shack in the early 00’s and was still explaining to people how to use it because their old VCR only had coax and they used it on channel 3 or 4. The fact that “just match the colours” was so confusing to these people was … well… yeah.

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    • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have the same answer 😅

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  • negativenull@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is why I have chips out of my shins.

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    • 73rdnemesio@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I miss my waterbed

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      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I miss your waterbed too.

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    • jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I once signed an apartment rental agreement that had a waterbed addendum, specifically banning their usage.

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      • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Weird. Me too and I was just thinking about that this morning.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I must be too young, I grew up on this:

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  • AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I am this old. Image

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  • JCN9000@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As a boy I had to stand up and walk to the TV to switch channel pressing buttons. No remote.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s wild that we absolutely needed 2 cables for Audio but that one ought to do for Video.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I am this old.

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  • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m this old - old TV, new for the time console Image

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  • red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m this old

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I am SCART old

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  • DementedSociety@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh a simpler time. When nothing needed to update, billion/trillionaires didn’t exist, and no one was trying to steal every normal of your data to rip you off and con you politically. I miss riding bikes till the street lights came on.

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  • darthelmet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I continue to be shocked to discover things that seemed very recent to me are now a decade or two old. I probably shouldn’t be, but here I am.

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  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m quite a bit older than those

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  • Jimbo@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are definitely underestimating the average age of a Lemmy user

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  • TeaWithDani@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wow, stereo TV, fancy.

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  • drath@lemmy.drath.ru ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Who doesn’t know RCA? That’s left, right, and sub!

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  • shortypig@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just used one a couple days ago.

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember being so excited when my family got a box to convert composite cables to coaxial so they would work with our old TV. I got my friend to bring over his gamecube all the time until I finally got my own after a few months.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yellow is video. White is left channel audio. Red is right channel audio.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m in my 20s and regularly did this as a child.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is that old? I still have devices using tulp. Modern day mixers and CDJ’s still use tulp connections, as do proper amps.

    I’m this old:

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  • fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Reminds me, I should go through my old box of DVDs and do some cleaning.

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  • CannedCairn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Older

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    still have some in a bag in my scrap catcher drawer

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  • Blackfeathr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hehehe, mismatched color ports go bzzzzzzzzzzzz

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