I'm "turn to channel 3" old...
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You could feel the static charge shift when changing channels
Yeah which explains my hair in those days
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.
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.
It's been a while since I've had to do a game system setup on an old TV, (like damn near 20 years) but I think you used channel 3 because it was a channel reserved for local communications, so there would never be "TV" on that channel. Your VCR connected to the TV with a coax cable, and if you wanted to have "TV" plugged in at the same time, you either needed a TV with multiple coax inputs (I think it was common to have 2, one for VCR, and one for satellite/aerial antenna) or a coax splitter. Early on, those RCA plugs weren't built into a lot of TVs, so you needed the VCR to inject that signal onto coax for the TV. Lots (if not most/all) VCRs would let you switch the channel used in the settings, I think mainly to cover other regions where channel 3 was not standardized.
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I am this many years old.
I am this old as well but there's a reason I always have a screwdriver handy
Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!
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dude... i hooked up my sega master system II to my TV up the Antenna port with that little switch box.
This guy olds.
This. This is how old. OP needs to get off my lawn.
There it is!
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I’m this old.
I once signed an apartment rental agreement that had a waterbed addendum, specifically banning their usage.
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This is why I have chips out of my shins.
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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. We didn't get a color TV until I was about eight years old. My mom didn't like the color, she thought they looked wrong, so we had black and white until she saw a Sony TV. (Early 70s)
The old B&W TV looked something like this:
This was our first VCR. I think this was the first digital clock we had in the house, too:
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Does this answer your question?
Also I don't think composite is that old tbf.
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As a boy I had to stand up and walk to the TV to switch channel pressing buttons. No remote.
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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I must be too young, I grew up on this:
SCART was ahead of its time. You could control connected devices with it like HDMI CEC. You could wake up devices through it. You could daisy chain devices together with it. A TV could sent its TV signal down to a SCART connected device from its tuner! No equivalent for this exists today, unless there's TV that do HDMI OUT! By the end, it could do 1080p!
Also, the TV didn't just send the currently-tuned channel 'down' the chain, it also allowed connected devices to inject their own, synced, video back into the TV, so you could be watching a show on BBC1, say, and the VCR could overlay a box in the top-right corner letting you know it had started a scheduled recording off Channel 4. Or, if you used a device like a Selectavision, if you tuned into a scrambled channel the Selectavision would notice, decode it, and send the descrambled version back up to the TV, all without the user realising it. Those clever Frenchies.
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I am this old.
It's wild that we absolutely needed 2 cables for Audio but that one ought to do for Video.
It makes perfect sense since it is analog, each of them provides signal to a separate device. You had one screen and two speakers.
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In this old
SCART is newer than composite, though..
Didn't say they were the oldest, just that they are that old
I'm quite a bit older than those
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.
Yellow is video. White is left channel audio. Red is right channel audio.
I am SCART old
I typed the long form of this before, but I bought a projector with no sound system, and just hooked up my existing small TV to the composite audio and the display to the projector
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