I was just watching this on YouTube. Just thought I'd share!

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Those old TV sets from the 1920s and 1930s kinda give me the creeps. I know technology wasn't very advanced in those days. It's still interesting though!

The major change on the development of the humble television set was in 1911, when Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images" over wires to the "Braun tube" (cathode ray tube or "CRT") in the receiver. Moving images were not possible because, in the scanner: "the sensitivity was not enough and the selenium cell was very laggy".

The major change on the development of the humble television set was in 1911, when Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images" over wires to the "Braun tube" (cathode ray tube or "CRT") in the receiver. Moving images were not possible because, in the scanner: "the sensitivity was not enough and the selenium cell was very laggy".


That's interesting, Philip! Thanks for sharing it.  :)

I have a photo of my grandfather with one of the first televisions in the '30s. He was a salesman that sold appliances.


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The major change on the development of the humble television set was in 1911, when Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images" over wires to the "Braun tube" (cathode ray tube or "CRT") in the receiver. Moving images were not possible because, in the scanner: "the sensitivity was not enough and the selenium cell was very laggy".
...and of course, today's modern flat screen televisions do not contain a cathode ray tube.

I remember TV sets during The 1980's.

I remember TV sets during The 1980's.
Something like this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Tv_1980.jpg/800px-Tv_1980.jpg

We have at one time, like this.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a7/13/0d/a7130d6a68f599df119cc2e7537d5f9e.jpg

I remember TV sets during The 1980's.


Correct. A lot of people had TV sets in the 1980s.

Correct. A lot of people had TV sets in the 1980s.
...and VCRs

This is what a TV looked like in the 1980s. We owned one just like this when I was a kid!

https://i.ibb.co/6yxr0J7/IMG-20211109-142942.jpg

This is what a TV looked like in the 1980s. We owned one just like this when I was a kid!

https://i.ibb.co/6yxr0J7/IMG-20211109-142942.jpg
...and we exercised ourselves when it came to change the channel?

...and we exercised ourselves when it came to change the channel?


The rule in my house was, the youngest kid had to get up and change the channel (and adjust the volume and picture controls and move the antenna around).

I was a little mad at my younger brother because by the time he was old enough for television duty, my parents got a TV with a remote so he got out of it.  ;D

This was the t.v. that I bought in 1988 and used until a few years ago when I sold it. Yes, it still worked but the picture was awful.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50454234558_5da088c8b8.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50454948446_15bb1e0365.jpg


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This is so creepy! I just don't like those really old Television sets from the 20s or 30s. They're antiques now but I would not like to own one!

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This is so creepy! I just don't like those really old Television sets from the 20s or 30s. They're antiques now but I would not like to own one!




I honestly don't see what's so "creepy" about an inanimate object. They're handsome looking items made of beautiful wood, and I love that the dial is made to look like the steering wheel or helm of a ship. And I love that they got it to actually work! Do you realize what a revelation this was to people of the early 20th Century?

Now this was creepy...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Poltergeist_%281982%29.png

...which is a 1980s television.

Something like this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Tv_1980.jpg/800px-Tv_1980.jpg

We have at one time, like this.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a7/13/0d/a7130d6a68f599df119cc2e7537d5f9e.jpg

Yes, especially the ones with the rabbit ears.

Correct. A lot of people had TV sets in the 1980s.

Yes I know that, thank you for reminding me!  ::)

...and VCRs

We had a VCR too.

We had a VCR too.
For us, it was Betamax first, followed by VHS.

This is what a TV looked like in the 1980s. We owned one just like this when I was a kid!

https://i.ibb.co/6yxr0J7/IMG-20211109-142942.jpg


We had a Magnavox too, the ones with the knobs.

...and we exercised ourselves when it came to change the channel?

I had to keep changing the damn channel and that hurt my fingers.

We have at one time, like this.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a7/13/0d/a7130d6a68f599df119cc2e7537d5f9e.jpg
I think is was called Sony Trinitron.

I honestly don't see what's so "creepy" about an inanimate object. They're handsome looking items made of beautiful wood, and I love that the dial is made to look like the steering wheel or helm of a ship. And I love that they got it to actually work! Do you realize what a revelation this was to people of the early 20th Century?


Just look at it. It's ugly. :( I wouldn't want a TV set like that. That's horrible.


It's this one that bothers me.

https://i.ibb.co/X7B3r79/20211116-212359.jpg

Just look at it. It's ugly. :( I wouldn't want a TV set like that. That's horrible.


It's this one that bothers me.

https://i.ibb.co/X7B3r79/20211116-212359.jpg
It was considered high-tech back then!

Just look at it. It's ugly. :( I wouldn't want a TV set like that. That's horrible.


It's this one that bothers me.

https://i.ibb.co/X7B3r79/20211116-212359.jpg

What's horrible about it?

What's horrible about it?


You don't see it? It's ugly.  :-\\

When I first saw it before I posted the video, my first reaction was "Oh my god! Look at that TV...what the heck!?".  ;D

You don't see it? It's ugly.  :-\\

When I first saw it before I posted the video, my first reaction was "Oh my god! Look at that TV...what the heck!?".  ;D
In 40, 50, 60 years time people will say flat-screen televisions look ugly!

What's horrible about it?


I like it too, Howie. Very futuristic looking from the standpoint of the time. it would be a cool thing to have if one has the right place for it.

I always remember around 1970, my grandmother was the first to have a colour television. The whole immediate family was found to watch the Grand National, one of the big horse racing events of the year.

I always remember around 1970, my grandmother was the first to have a colour television. The whole immediate family was found to watch the Grand National, one of the big horse racing events of the year.

I can remember when our TV had rabbit ears.

Now it has got to the stage that some days I watch television, and have radio only.

Now it has got to the stage that some days I watch television, and have radio only.


I think I've been watching a lot of television.

This was the t.v. that I bought in 1988 and used until a few years ago when I sold it. Yes, it still worked but the picture was awful.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50454234558_5da088c8b8.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50454948446_15bb1e0365.jpg


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My mom had a tv like that when I was younger.

My mom had a tv like that when I was younger.

I remember when TV sets used to look like that too! My grandparents had an RCA set that was their main set for as long as I could remember in the 1980s into the 1990s.

This is what a TV looked like in the 1980s. We owned one just like this when I was a kid!

https://i.ibb.co/6yxr0J7/IMG-20211109-142942.jpg

I didn't own one like that, but I saw them in other people's homes. The top knob was for VHF; turning it to the letter "U" enabled use of the UHF knob, which had channel numbers ranging from 14 to 83 (although 70 through 83 were made obsolete in 1983, when that range was dropped from the UHF block). TV sets made after 1983 only went up to 69.

Yes, especially the ones with the rabbit ears.

Oh, those pesky rabbit ears contraptions! :D It would be a pain to adjust them to get the picture just right...and doing so would mess up the pictures on the other channels.