I'm just kinda curious about this because it was another random thought in my mind.

I know when I was a little kid living in my grandma's old house (she doesn't live there anymore), I used to watch stuff on a TV with rabbit ears (this was during 2006-2007, I think).

The TV looked something like this:

https://i0.wp.com/visions4netjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/journal/Sony-KV-1214-4-525-WP.jpg

Any memories to share?

I did. But the antenna wasn’t actually built in. It was a set of “rabbit ears” that we would need to adjust in order to get good reception on the channels. (My household didn’t subscribe to cable when I was growing up.)

I'm just kinda curious about this because it was another random thought in my mind.

I know when I was a little kid living in my grandma's old house (she doesn't live there anymore), I used to watch stuff on a TV with rabbit ears (this was during 2006-2007, I think).

The TV looked something like this:

https://i0.wp.com/visions4netjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/journal/Sony-KV-1214-4-525-WP.jpg

Any memories to share?

Back during The 80's having one of those TV's with rabbit ears was the thing to have in the house for the family to watch in the living room. I hated rabbit ears cause it's the switching to try to get good reception and if you did, you were lucky.

I did, for about the first half of it. I've even put aluminum foil on the antenna tips to try to improve the signal, and kept having to manually adjust them. But I mostly used that TV top play my Sega Genesis (and Nintendo in the early 90's) or watch movies on VHS.

In 1990, I moved up to a mountain that cable didn't go. I had an antenna that picked up 1/2 a channel. It was VERY snowy but I could hear it but watching wasn't great. I was lucky that that one channel had my soap (One Life To Live). At least I could follow what was going on. Then in 1992, I moved across state into an apartment that I was able to get cable. I felt like I was moving into civilization-not just because of the cable but the apartment was on a paved road and there were quite a few neighbors unlike on the mountain.


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I did, for about the first half of it. I've even put aluminum foil on the antenna tips to try to improve the signal, and kept having to manually adjust them. But I mostly used that TV top play my Sega Genesis (and Nintendo in the early 90's) or watch movies on VHS.


And I bet you had to move around the room to try to get a good reception?

And I bet you had to move around the room to try to get a good reception?

Sometimes you had to do just that.

And sometimes if you got a decent picture on one channel, it would mess up that of other channels in the process.

Sometimes you had to do just that.

And sometimes if you got a decent picture on one channel, it would mess up that of other channels in the process.

Exactly.

I did. I grew up watching PBS kids.

I have a digital TV aerial, does that count?

Here's how it was done in the 90's -

Mr. Bean - TV Trouble  :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9-vDow2d0

Here's how it was done in the 90's -

Mr. Bean - TV Trouble  :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9-vDow2d0

Absolute classic television!

Me!

We had cable for as long as I can remember. My granny did and still only has broadcast tv.