Oh the rolling picture

Oh yes, I remember. If I stomped on the floor it would often straighten out. Then they yelled at me not to do that as it loosened the horizontal tube more.

I remember my mother adjusting the set. My father moved the TV out from the wall and brought down a large mirror so she could see the results of her tinkering. I don't know what she did those times, but it worked.
 
When we were kids I remember us being the human antenna or adjusting the knobs on the back of the television while our parents coached us with things like a little to the left, back a little, forward, left, not so fast, etc...

We were also an early form of remote control for our parents.

I remember that when I got up to change the channel I had to call dibs on the couch or a favorite chair so my brothers and sister would not take my seat and I would end up on the floor.

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I remember the rolling pictures and the snowy ones too. I still use rabbit ears in my kitchen and living room Tvs, they're not connected to the cable. Now when the picture messes up and the antenna needs adjustment, the people freeze or the image has broken pixels....the voice of the person when it goes bad can be really scary sometimes, like out of a horror movie.
 
And now'a days...we have the best TVs , the most stable, big beautiful pictures , no interference , no snow, no rolling.....and not one damn thing worth watching on it........:mad-new:
 
Do you remember the magnification bubble that you placed over your screen to make the picture a little larger?

How about the tinted lens that you put over the screen to simulate a color image?

The lens was usually tinted blue on top and green on the bottom, so if you were watching an outdoor scene, it would almost look like a color picture!

We got our first TV in 1951..it was a 17" Packard Bell, the biggest available then.

Hal
 
HiDesertHal said:
Do you remember the magnification bubble that you placed over your screen to make the picture a little larger?

How about the tinted lens that you put over the screen to simulate a color image?The lens was usually tinted blue on top and green on the bottom, so if you were watching an outdoor scene, it would almost look like a color picture!

We got our first TV in 1951..it was a 17" Packard Bell, the biggest available then.

Hal
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My grandparents had a gadget that looked like one of those color wheels that you pointed at aluminum Christmas trees. It projected colors onto the screen and was supposed to make it look like a color TV. It didn't.
 
The first generation of all-electronic TV sets were scanned by a Horizontal Oscillator that ran at 15,750 cycles per second. (Hertz) This would give 525 lines of horizontal scan at a vertical rate of 30 Cycles per second (Hertz) (525 x 30= 15,750)

When I was younger I could actually hear the high-pitched scanning frequency of 15,750 Hertz!

Hal
 
I remember when we were kids my sister was the "remote control." Our father would snap his fingers and she would jump up go to the TV and fix whatever the problem was. (Change channel, adjust sound, fix the roll, whatever.)
 

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