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Explosionface posted:Yeah, we had another console TV that was great for putting the NES and Genesis on top of. So the controller cords could dangle in front of the screen? How barbaric.
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If you put your TV in a big console you'll just make it harder to get at the switch box at the back.
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There used to be a decorative item called a "tv lamp" that stood on the top of the TV and threw a soft backwash of light on the wall to prevent eyestrain. I love this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/115455895199
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Arsenic Lupin posted:There used to be a decorative item called a "tv lamp" that stood on the top of the TV and threw a soft backwash of light on the wall to prevent eyestrain. I love this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/115455895199 My grandma had a really cool one that was a Siamese cat but my sister snagged it before I could when we were cleaning out the house.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:There used to be a decorative item called a "tv lamp" that stood on the top of the TV and threw a soft backwash of light on the wall to prevent eyestrain. I love this one: this is amazing. oh poo poo: 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:There used to be a decorative item called a "tv lamp" that stood on the top of the TV and threw a soft backwash of light on the wall to prevent eyestrain. I love this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/115455895199 Omg THAT'S what that duck on my grandparent's TV was for???
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Arsenic Lupin posted:There used to be a decorative item called a "tv lamp" that stood on the top of the TV and threw a soft backwash of light on the wall to prevent eyestrain. I love this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/115455895199 Yeah I have a bias light on all my TV's. Works great
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I remember my grandparents' TV had a lightbulb on the back of it for that purpose, built into the TV. On my own TV now I've mounted some low temp white LED strips on the back because it doesn't have built in backlighting.
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For convoluted reasons, I'm in posession of my first real cable TV subscription in decades, and I'm thinking back to the old cable box we used to have with the seven-segment LEDs. The thing always turned on with a definitive "ca-thunk" sound that I now assume to be like maybe some sort of relay or something being engaged? Anyway, my modern story is less interesting because apparently I'm one of the five people left on earth with a use case for CableCards.
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Neito posted:For convoluted reasons, I'm in posession of my first real cable TV subscription in decades, and I'm thinking back to the old cable box we used to have with the seven-segment LEDs. The thing always turned on with a definitive "ca-thunk" sound that I now assume to be like maybe some sort of relay or something being engaged?
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Neito posted:For convoluted reasons, I'm in posession of my first real cable TV subscription in decades, and I'm thinking back to the old cable box we used to have with the seven-segment LEDs. The thing always turned on with a definitive "ca-thunk" sound that I now assume to be like maybe some sort of relay or something being engaged? Our cable box had an outlet on the back that was switched with a relay. This was so you could leave the tv power switch in the ON position and control its power via the cable box remote.
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I really loved cable as a kid and even into the early 2010's but the cost had become so high that i had to give it up. I got cable again for a few months last year because of nostalgia for the aughts i suppose, and i was pleased to see that the price had stayed relatively stable. Then i actually tried to use it and it sucked rear end. My dvr was way less sophisticated than the one i had 10 years ago and it was much more difficult to search and customize your recording schedule. The content itself was the worst part though. Basically every channel i liked back then now only shows huge blocks of one show for hours at a time. It used to be that shows were run in syndication from beginning to end so you could watch the entire series. Now though, even if the show you're watching has 20 years of episodes they will only run a select 30 or 40 episodes repeating every 2 weeks. It's some loving bull poo poo
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titties posted:I really loved cable as a kid and even into the early 2010's but the cost had become so high that i had to give it up. I gave up on cable 6 or 7 years ago, it’s kind of impressive how quickly it degraded in that time. I stayed with my parents for like a week last year and was kind of excited to not have to pick things to watch. It’s like you said where several hour long blocks are shown but most channels don’t seem to put any effort into branding anymore. Like, they don’t have named programming blocks or little bumpers or anything (except adult swim because that’s sort of their entire thing). The non-scripted network shows are insanely dire too, just bottom of the barrel crap designed to make boomers giggle for a few seconds. Basically, real cable is indistinguishable from Pluto TV now.
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8 hours of Two And A Half Men, followed by 8 hours of Big Bang Theory, followed by 8 hours of Storage Wars is basically most cable channels now.
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It’s usually four-hour blocks, but sometimes the same block repeats on the same day.
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My mom has some kind of digital cable package and it fuckin lists Netflix as a channel in the channel guide so olds can actually find it lmao
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Killingyouguy! posted:My mom has some kind of digital cable package and it fuckin lists Netflix as a channel in the channel guide so olds can actually find it lmao Kind of the opposite of how my (new, Sony, Android) TV lists "TV" as an app along with youtube and netflix.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I threw away our last TiVo a couple of years back. We still have my partners ancient one as it’s integrated into the cable box, and for some baffling reason, he still wants cable. I do not know why but we also have all the functionality of said cable box/TiVo as an app, that we can chromecast to, which we also have. I’m starting to weigh the reality that I will be cremating my partner someday with that goddamn box.
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I miss the history channel back when it was at least 12 hours of Nazi documentaries every day
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:I miss the history channel back when it was at least 12 hours of Nazi documentaries every day Ah yes, back when it was the Hitler Channel
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Next on History: Hitler's Dog's Secret Mistress
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History teacher in the far future: Yeah there is a lot of that
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I threw away our last TiVo a couple of years back. the condos we live in did away with the free basic cable in May of last year, so I cancelled our other TV services (since we'd be liable for a $190/mo bill for the whole thing instead of the $50-60 we were paying for add-on services). Lo and behold, for some reason the basic cable still works, no one ever bothered to cut off the building. Since our living room TV lacks a TV Tuner, I pulled out my circa-2011 Tivo and we're good to go.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:It’s usually four-hour blocks, but sometimes the same block repeats on the same day. this is a "trick" used to programm digital channels who own little actual programmes. it is assumed that every viewer has a set daily routine, and tends to watch tv at the same time every day, eg someone might have the tv running from 7 to 8 for breakfast & then from 7 till 9 after work. this allows the channel to air the exact same episodes every day, except theyll shift them by a couple hours. episode A will air at 7 on monday, tuesdays youll have ep B at 7 and ep A at 9 and so on. now if you never tune in outside your normal routine, youll be none the wiser
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verbal enema posted:https://twitter.com/VerbalTwo/status/1546213959770021888?t=48LWkNhtDzHBG3lfrWV7FA&s=19
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I like how most of the lovely jokes are timeless but then there's "NANO NANO" dating this poster very, very firmly in the early 80s. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/06dbecd6-cda4-499c-a857-7fe4fda81291
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titties posted:The content itself was the worst part though. Basically every channel i liked back then now only shows huge blocks of one show for hours at a time. It used to be that shows were run in syndication from beginning to end so you could watch the entire series. Now though, even if the show you're watching has 20 years of episodes they will only run a select 30 or 40 episodes repeating every 2 weeks. It's some loving bull poo poo Yeah, I dropped cable around 2006, when I realized I could watch the majority of what I was watching was free with an antenna. Every time I encounter it, I really am glad I dropped it back then. Hell, at this point the OTA sub-channels, despite being almost entirely reruns, gives me way more entertainment value than anything I've seen on cable every time I brush up against it.
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Computer viking posted:Kind of the opposite of how my (new, Sony, Android) TV lists "TV" as an app along with youtube and netflix. My mom's TV also does that (it's some kind of hosed up Cable Provider OEM TV or some poo poo) but when I navigated to that top menu she'd never seen it before and thought I was doing advanced hacking poo poo
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Killingyouguy! posted:My mom's TV also does that (it's some kind of hosed up Cable Provider OEM TV or some poo poo) but when I navigated to that top menu she'd never seen it before and thought I was doing advanced hacking poo poo This used to be VCR programming
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/MrTimDunn/status/1546386124012134401?s=20&t=7vnIU1cQlDnecfkFu6XRRg You need to share that with the Locomotive Insanity thread
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For those who are wondering, that little diesel shunter locomotive is only there because the steam tram (yes, tram) locomotive doesn't have the appropriate coupling to couple with the modern automatic one on the train. It's not providing any traction.
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LimaBiker posted:For those who are wondering, that little diesel shunter locomotive is only there because the steam tram (yes, tram) locomotive doesn't have the appropriate coupling to couple with the modern automatic one on the train. It's not providing any traction. Dongles for headphones, dongles for trains, the future is dongles for all
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LifeSunDeath posted:holy poo poo Some day you can order cat food and athletic jorts from your refrigerator. 1950's resident: holy poo poo computers got THAT SMALL???!
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LifeSunDeath posted:holy poo poo Same one caught my eye. I want it.
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