Re: Who remembers how bad analogue television was?

On 2/27/2025 1:04 AM, Don Y wrote:

On 2/26/2025 9:52 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:

Leave aside the ghosting, which could largely be addressed by having a decent antenna.

 Analog television had two distinct issues:  one was multipath problems
(bummer), the other was that you COULD eek a signal out of the ether,
even a bad one (contrast to digital which is essentially "all or nothing")
 

But my memory of a Philips Colour TV (1984ish) was that it had rubbish automatic gain control (AGC), and odd interactions between brightness and picture position.

 My last set was a JVC AV2600US (IIRC):
    <https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cj4AAOSwMKdksA8u/s-l1600.webp>
It was big and heavy, had funny "dumbo ears" -- but just kept on
running, year after year (I think I purchased it in the
early 80's and it lasted well into this millenium -- not bad for
a $1K investment!)

The first TV I have memory of was an early 80s Motorola/Quasar 19" that my parents probably bought not long after I was born and looked a lot like this one:
<https://www.intervideo.co/quasar-wt5957-19-crt-television/amp/>
Reception wasn't usually a problem we were 10 miles south of the main Boston-area antenna fields in Newton, just rabbit ears sufficed and it worked fine hooked up to a Nintendo...that served well into the 90s when we got a larger Mitsubishi tube-type TV that served well into the 2000s, and then that was about it for the tubes.
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