First TV?

[karohemd]

This just came up at work for some reason.

[Poll #1479849]

Note: This is mainly targeted at people around my age, i.e. those who actually remember what a black and white TV looked like and what it was like to actually having to get up and switch manually between the three available channels.

Comments

[pinkapplejam.livejournal.com]

I would be able to answer all these questions if they were about the VCR! ^^

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You had a black&white VCR? That's hardcore.

[pinkapplejam.livejournal.com]

Haha! Technically we had a toploader, does that count as the same? :3

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does. :D

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

We had a betamax toploader before we got a VHS. In fact at one point we had two betas. I think my parents still have a working one of them.

[missdiane.livejournal.com]

I'd have to ask my Mom and Dad what year they got a TV before I was born. My family has always been into the latest electronic bits and gadgets so though we had one black and white TV hanging out in another room, I mostly remember watching the gigantoid color tv with wood frame.

I didn't count having my "first own TV" as the hand me down that was in my room when I was a teenager. lol

[pinkapplejam.livejournal.com]

Beta!! <3 ("Oh No, Beta" = best Snake quote ever)

[omentide.livejournal.com]

I can't remember. Maybe I am too old.

I do remember the first time I ever saw a colour TV. I was collecting money for a charity door to door (which is something we used to do at school) and someone had a colour TV and it was..... interesting. I think that was around 1971.

[hrafen.livejournal.com]

Three channels? That was a lot, I remember when there was less.

[whiskeylover.livejournal.com]

I had my own TV in the year 2002-2003

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

All of them public. ARD, ZDF and the regional channel (part of ARD but on a separate channel).

[belaroo.livejournal.com]

My Dad is a Luddite and still has wind up gramophones and wirelesses with valves, not to mention wind up clocks and treadle lathes.
I bought my first one in about 1995 but I've had a telly someone gave to me since I moved to Utrecht when I was about 20.
My Dad used to get loads of crap from the licence people who didn't believe he still had a black and white telly well into the 1990s.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.
Does he generate his own electricity with that treadle? ;o)

My parents are hardly tech-savvy (despite my dad being an engineer but he's a mechanical engineer and can't get his head around electronics, unlike his brother who built his first radio when he was 12) but they do reasonably keep up with technology.

[belaroo.livejournal.com]

He is well and truly a member of the early 20th Century. He relies on his own power as much as possible. I think it's more an underlying distrust of just about everything actually. I think it's a shame really, he's keeping himself back from lots of things he'd love. Even his science fiction is positively 20th Century.

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

I remember my mother being very cross when I got home from school and didn't notice it was now in colour. We had redifusion cable in at least one house (due to crap local reception), which had a rotary selector dial on the wall, by my chair - almost a remote. I was dead impressed in 1982 when I encountered a wire-connected cable set in the states.

My first TV was a second-hand colour to use with my VIC-20, which stayed at home. When I was at college, I had a tiny black & white set. When I took the colour TV to my first flat in 1983, my remote was a 6-foot bamboo pole with a rubber foot, to press the buttons!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You win with the 6 foot pole. ;)

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

However, my father's parents bought the first TV in their street in the early 1950s, and everyone in the street came to their house to watch the coronation :-)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That should put you in the lead as I include grandparents in family. :o)