Re: Who remembers how bad analogue television was?

On 2/27/2025 9:54 AM, bitrex wrote:

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

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.

Our first set (B&W) was a Philco (?) with a roundish tube.
But, it had a MOTORIZED channel selector; a button on the
top of the cabinet would advance the selector for as long as
you held it depressed.
I can still recall the distinctive "rattling" sound that
followed the selector's settling into each new position.
The sort of memory like that of a score-motor in a pinball
machine or the lifting mechanism for a shuffle-bowling
machine -- very unique and memorable