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You Are A Elf posted:That incredibly high pitched 15 KHz tone they used to emit while they were on that made it seem like you had superhuman hearing and/or was a demigod or some poo poo. You’d be in another room yelling, “Hey, turn off the dang TV!”, and someone would ask how you knew it was on, and you’d just turn to the imaginary camera and grin like Kevin McAllister. I can hear up to 16,000 hz. Wife can hear up to 15,000 hz. Kid can hear 20,100 hz. Thx for coming to my TED talk
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Ralph Hurley posted:I liked how the picture on some old TV screens would shrink down to a glowing white dot when you switched it off, and they were all different. My grandparents had several ancient TVs, the kind that were built in to large wooden cabinets, and you could get all sorts of weird effects with the glowing dot by switching it on and off multiple times. Sometimes the dot would leave a trail lIke a comet as it faded. There was also that creepy thing where you would turn off the TV in a dark room and the whole screen would glow for a few minutes. I loved jacking with the tint and color and vertical hold controls and make people’s faces green and purple. Come to think of it, I got yelled at a lot for messing with the TV. I would do this poo poo with Yard Sale TVs, so as to avoid incurring daddy's wrath for wrecking the Trinitron. The tiny glowing dot thing was so magical
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