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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2013, 05:55:04 PM »
Without knowing make/model....see if your remote has an info/display/input or menu button, and see what comes up.

Sounds like you bumped the remote, you need to get in the menu and change the input back to cable/antenna...otherwise you will be looking at the blue screen with AV on the bottom for eternity.

It shows programming (when it doesn't show static), but with "AV" in the corner. So I am able to watch tv, but... with a hastle :D

I'm down with frugal living dude, but I think its time to buy a new one.

It coughed its last cough today.

The quiet is unnerving o_o

They are practically giving away CRT tvs at all the thrift stores around here it  some are only a dollar, check someplace like that

Yes, I need nothing fancy, so a tv shouldn't be very difficult to aquire
I'm totally addicted to that background buzz -.-

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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2013, 05:56:27 PM »
Without knowing make/model....see if your remote has an info/display/input or menu button, and see what comes up.

Sounds like you bumped the remote, you need to get in the menu and change the input back to cable/antenna...otherwise you will be looking at the blue screen with AV on the bottom for eternity.

It shows programming (when it doesn't show static), but with "AV" in the corner. So I am able to watch tv, but... with a hastle :D

I'm down with frugal living dude, but I think its time to buy a new one.

It coughed its last cough today.

The quiet is unnerving o_o

They are practically giving away CRT tvs at all the thrift stores around here it  some are only a dollar, check someplace like that

Yes, I need nothing fancy, so a tv shouldn't be very difficult to aquire
I'm totally addicted to that background buzz -.-

I have it on a lot of times for that very same reason
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.'
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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #17 on: September 13, 2013, 06:18:59 PM »
  I have two CRT sets   :tv:   that I no longer use because they are too old ( 1980s and 90s ) to be
  usable with the current cable remotes.  Too bad you live all the way over there in the land of the frozen fjords!
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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #18 on: September 14, 2013, 08:39:31 AM »
They are everywhere here, usually at least 5 being given away on Craigslist every morning...trash day I've passed everything from 19" to consoles and big ass projection units, a lot with signs on them saying they work.

The trash men won't take them, the scrappers won't take them (no one locally is taking the tubes/glass)...kids are smashing them, or some of the scrappers are pulling the copper yokes out on the curb and letting them set with the back ripped off...it's becoming a problem in certain areas.

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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2013, 08:52:53 AM »
It struck me! My Norwegian family is quite wealthy. It's nothing that I have ever thought much about, cus, you know, they aren't exceptionally wealthy, they're just normal Norwegians (as opposed to me being broke as a cockroach), so I just threw it out there, and yup, they got tvs they don't use.

I now have a _big_ old Bang & Olufsen tv! Yay!

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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2013, 04:35:20 PM »
It struck me! My Norwegian family is quite wealthy. It's nothing that I have ever thought much about, cus, you know, they aren't exceptionally wealthy, they're just normal Norwegians (as opposed to me being broke as a cockroach), so I just threw it out there, and yup, they got tvs they don't use.

I now have a _big_ old Bang & Olufsen tv! Yay!

  I want to be adopted by your Norwegian family.  :bonnet:
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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2013, 08:09:08 AM »
I'd rather buy a laptop computer than a new TV.  :P
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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #22 on: September 22, 2013, 08:22:20 AM »
I'd rather buy a laptop computer than a new TV.  :P
I watch more TV on mine than on the TV :zoinks:
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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2013, 08:26:03 AM »
I'd rather buy a laptop computer than a new TV.  :P
I watch more TV on mine than on the TV :zoinks:
And this is why TV makers are shaking in there boots. they are afraid the computer will replace the TV
But, I also watch TV on my computer. it was bound to happen, just like CDs will one day go away.  :'(
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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #24 on: September 22, 2013, 11:30:56 AM »
laptops tend to be kind of a scam.

Imho, you only need a laptop if you're one of these with such an epically busy job, you have to - have to - have to - finish your power-point presentation while on the subway.
Otherwise, laptops are a waste of money, compared to a good stationary :M

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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #25 on: September 22, 2013, 11:46:27 AM »
I guess for me comfort is everything. Laptops are cheep these days also, everything is right there at your finger tips
TV's stay in one spot usually, and cable these days is fucking bullshit. expencive, and fuck it

too many things wrong with it.
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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #26 on: September 22, 2013, 01:10:07 PM »
I guess for me comfort is everything. Laptops are cheep these days also, everything is right there at your finger tips
TV's stay in one spot usually, and cable these days is fucking bullshit. expencive, and fuck it

too many things wrong with it.

To be fair, laptops are probably practical for those who never plan to use a lot of computing power (such as no computer games, or other such demanding programs), but even then, some laptops really fail in delivering, and I suspect they were made to just barely send email without overheating. My mother has one such, I have gone through it and cleaned every single little crannie in there, and it just isn't strong enough to simply run windows, without struggling.

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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #27 on: September 22, 2013, 03:57:44 PM »
So have you ever had someone check your hard drive Zeg?  :eyebrows:
But I dunno, I'll take your word for it. I don't game on my computer but I understand the tradition home PC has a lot more memory.
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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #28 on: September 22, 2013, 08:50:42 PM »
My laptop does fine granted I don't play memory heavy games but for most normal stuff it's great.

Speaking of old fashioned TV's here's a few I have had in the past

 



This one we loaned out to a local theater group as a prop

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Re: Hmmm, a question about old fashioned TV sets
« Reply #29 on: September 23, 2013, 09:45:59 AM »
My laptop does fine granted I don't play memory heavy games but for most normal stuff it's great.

Speaking of old fashioned TV's here's a few I have had in the past

 



This one we loaned out to a local theater group as a prop

My dad would love those. He's such a commie sometimes. His office chair he dug out of a dumpster - right in front of his workplace, ingeneers, people in ties ":o"-ing from the office windows.

For years he had a 10cm little tv monitor on a radio, we had to adjust the antennae for 15 minutes to get some black and white tv.
On the one he has now everyone's pink. He refuses to upgrade, and knowing him he would rather downgrade considerably. It's almost impressive how he manages to turn down later used car models at more affordable price, than just a decade older one, considerably more worn and in need of repairs, for the same or slightly more. He is an expert!
He'll be all "Wait, this window closes properly."
"yes, yes it does."
"Hmmm... are you sure you don't have a Lada standing around?"

he adored that Lada