"Just match the colors!"
"There's no yellow... It's just red and white."
"That's impossible. Move out of the way!"
"..."
"My God."
"What do we do now? I'm scared."
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I remember when you had to use a screwdriver.
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Or the coax passthrough connection so you could play Nintendo on channel 3
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Ah yes, the fun days of hooking up the dvd player to our CRT, but it was too heavy to move, so we had to trial and error all the cords without seeing the colours on the back until it worked
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Just give me my degauss button back. That sound, on-demand at a single button press. We didn't know how good we had it.
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I'm 38, and I still remember black and white TV.
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Could you mix the cables and get cool surreal colour switched versions of your shows?
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We went from the twin lead coming from the antenna on the roof, to the coaxial stapled along the outside wall, coming in through a hole in the wall near the TV and connecting to a box, which connected to the antenna in. Then the VCR comes in and the TV got a coaxial in. Then we had the RCA component in on the TV, along with RGB. That's where CRT input ends.
There's the TOSLINK, but I think that was only for audio hardware.
Then HDMI, and probably other ones I'm forgetting.
I was there for all of it. Including the rabbit ears antenna on "portable" CRT TVs. And, the Sony Watchman.
What's up with the image? It's like those weird YouTube kids videos that show cooking images with a voiceover at 200% speed taking about someone getting cancer
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Nightmares back to speakers wires that were just never long enough.
PAL is your pal
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At least I didn't have to color match scart but it's a pain in the ass to orient right
Were you there for this?
My father watches snookers and I remember how happy he was when the quality was good enough to distinguish the colors
Oh no, I'm getting old
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