I am this old.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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I'm "turn to channel 3" old...
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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I am this many years old.
I am this old as well but there's a reason I always have a screwdriver handy
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Does this answer your question?
Also I don't think composite is that old tbf.
Ooh, I get to trot out my console humblebragging picture again.
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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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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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.
Wow, stereo TV, fancy.
The red one is for dangling.
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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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:
I'm literally watching a baseball game with the right picture in the back of my second monitor, and it's plugged into an adapter for the left picture in my PC.
I'm 39.
I'm 39
Same. Time for a monitor and gpu upgrade mate.
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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.
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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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I'm this old - old TV, new for the time console
Channel 3
I had RF adapters for my NES...
I had to get a new TV since my old one had the two screw posts that the Atari hooked up to.
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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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Yeah? Those were on the ps2
Just used one a couple days ago.
I'm quite a bit older than those
Sadly, yes
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