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mostlygray posted:My buddy bought a (to my memory) 40" Sony WEGA back around 2000. That thing must have weighed 400 lbs. It was very pretty, but you had to consider the floor under it for point load. I don't know how much he paid for it but it must have been obscene. God help you if your kid tipped it over on themselves. poo poo, if you tipped it on yourself you'd be pretty messed up. I bought a 42” Sony WEGA CRT in 1999 and still have it though the picture is dead. It was I think $2500. At the time plasmas were just coming out and I remember the store I bought it from had a couple ~32” plasmas and they were like $6000
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cursed images thread is next door
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The living room of the Giraffes.
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A projection-TV on stilts is pretty scary, I would be frightened to be in the same room as that thing.
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Aug 11, 2020 23:04
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Just needs a sturdy mantle to sit on.
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S is for Susan, in a snake's belly T is for Timmy, crushed by the telly
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good lord, could they have picked a weaker-looking piece of furniture?! 
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i'm the door off its hinges for no explicable reason
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Aug 12, 2020 00:05
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Sweevo posted:i'm the door off its hinges for no explicable reason It's to save it if the TV falls
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That's some combination of VCRs, bulky cable boxes, CD changers and CDIs. Whatever it is, there are way too many of them.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:That's some combination of VCRs, bulky cable boxes, CD changers and CDIs. Whatever it is, there are way too many of them. Welcome to the homes of all my friends in the late 90s / early 2000s, 5 different remote controls scattered across the coffee table and an elaborate ritual to align video/audio inputs and outputs to watch the goddamn TV.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Welcome to the homes of all my friends in the late 90s / early 2000s, 5 different remote controls scattered across the coffee table and an elaborate ritual to align video/audio inputs and outputs to watch the goddamn TV. I went to a friend's house and had no idea how to turn on the TV. They had satellite TV and I couldn't for the life of me get anything to show up on the TV. I was used to regular cable where you just turn the TV on and you're watching something.
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Aug 12, 2020 02:49
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Sweevo posted:i'm the door off its hinges for no explicable reason I'm the bowl of flowers and ??thermos?? delicately placed on top of Mount Projection.
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Cojawfee posted:I went to a friend's house and had no idea how to turn on the TV. They had satellite TV and I couldn't for the life of me get anything to show up on the TV. I was used to regular cable where you just turn the TV on and you're watching something. My dad still has one of those setups where you need 4 remotes to turn the TV on and you only use this one for the volume, this one is only for turning the TV on, this one is the cable, but then this one if you want to watch Netflix.
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And one of them is a "One Remote Control For All Devices"-Type-Remote? Which does actually only control only one of the devices and only half the buttons actually do something.
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Wipfmetz posted:And one of them is a "One Remote Control For All Devices"-Type-Remote? Which does actually only control only one of the devices and only half the buttons actually do something. My Hifi-of-Thesus has seen a few Pioneer components. All of them could be daisy chained together with 1/8 in. cables so one remote controlled everything. Never managed to have two of those components at once, but the option was there. The new TV can control volume on my A/V receiver but can't turn it on or off, so the receiver's remote may as well have one button. Can you guess which remote I always lose?
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Pham Nuwen posted:Welcome to the homes of all my friends in the late 90s / early 2000s, 5 different remote controls scattered across the coffee table and an elaborate ritual to align video/audio inputs and outputs to watch the goddamn TV. Later when my dad went into the living room to check out his brand new TV, he had the same experience and immediately yelled for me to come in and tell him what had happened. He explained that by using the power button to switch it on – which was what I was used to, as the old one couldn't be powered on with the remote unless it had been left in standby, something my parents didn't like doing because of the possible power drain – instead of the channel up/down button next to it, I had somehow completely deprogrammed the TV, forcing him to spend a second entire afternoon setting it up from scratch again as he angrily retraced his steps from the previous day. He hadn't actually bothered explaining to me (or anyone else) that the new TV had a different startup procedure, or that one completely innocuous press of the power button would reset it to factory settings, but he was adamant that I was an irresponsible little idiot for not first approaching him and making sure I knew exactly what I was doing before attempting to use it. So, as a result of that experience, I've spent the past twenty years catching weird reactions from people when I ask them to please tell me what exactly I should do to turn on their TV (it is always the big button on the remote that says "power", weirdly enough). Also thinking about it I am pretty sure he just hosed up during the first round of setup and didn't realise he had to hit Save Config somewhere but couldn't bring himself to admit it and invented the "only use the channel up button" rule on the spot to save face
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Aug 12, 2020 08:11
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i imagine this thing just plays gruesome nature documentaries all day like in twin peaks
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Pretty good posted:
...Or it could be that your TV had cheaply built internals and a faulty memory backup battery or something; my grandma had a PoS Samsung (also mid-90's model) that lost all programming and reset to defaults if it lost power unexpectedly, like if thunderstorm cut electricity. My parents switched their bedroom TV to grandma because my parent knew how to quickly reprogram the channels, grandma didn't bother to learn even with written instructions (and because it was nice to guilt-trip mom or my aunt to visit there to fix the TV).
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Aug 12, 2020 08:53
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My parents used to have a nice, simple setup where everything could be controlled with the TV remote back in the day when they still had satellite TV and later after that using only terrestrial television. Then dad got tired of the lovely picture quality of the latter (being in the middle of nowhere, still no HD and like six channels total) and it turned out the treeline behind the house had grown enough in the years since that putting up a new dish was a nonstarter and even the old one had spotty reception when it was still in use. So they got an internet TV package from their ISP complete with a new router and the little hockey puck box and as it delightfully turns out, it doesn't play very well at all with the receiver or the TV's HDMI control. So now there's a very specific sequence that you have to do on the three remotes to turn the devices on and off without a. either having one turn off when the other turns on and sends the wake signal over HDMI or b. having one stay on when you're trying to turn the whole chain off. Oh yeah and sometimes only one of the remotes adjusts the volume properly while the others do nothing or keep repeating the input and very quickly max out the volume if you don't cancel it out. And sometimes the receiver does input switching for watching something on the Chromecast automatically and sometimes it doesn't so you have to manually do it on the remote. Sometimes the receiver will turn on but the TV won't recognize it and output audio to it, and sometimes the receiver won't output video to the TV so you have to turn the whole chain off and on again. It's real good stuff.
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twistedmentat posted:My dad still has one of those setups where you need 4 remotes to turn the TV on and you only use this one for the volume, this one is only for turning the TV on, this one is the cable, but then this one if you want to watch Netflix.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I mean with my setup I have to turn on the TV with one remote, operate the PS4 with its controller and use another remote for setting the volume/selecting the input on my speakers, I don't think I'd be in a position to throw stones. It's great that Sony has kept their remote controls compatible for so long I can operate my TV, video cassette recorder, and two home video game consoles with just one remote. The TV even turns on and chooses the right input if I turn on either console via the gamepad. And also chooses the correct input when I put in a Video Home System cassette but I think that's brand-independent?
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This is what I see at all my friends houses that have their TVs mounted waaay to high on the wall. I was telling my neighbour off about his mounting height then a random kids toy punctured the wall under it. Neighbour wins this round!
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Humphreys posted:This is what I see at all my friends houses that have their TVs mounted waaay to high on the wall. 
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Kamrat posted:A projection-TV on stilts is pretty scary, I would be frightened to be in the same room as that thing. It's like the Groverhaus of home entertainment systems
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Pretty good posted:One friday afternoon in 1997 or 1998 Around the same time my family had a TV which would default to channel 1 when it was turned on. You then had to change it to channel 6 to watch cable. Surprisingly irritating, since it meant we needed two remotes, one of was solely to switch the thing to channel 6 several times a day. As we never actually used the TV's own channels 1-5, I suggested re-tuning the TV so the cable box used channel 1 and we could abandon this silly second remote thing. This idea was dismissed, as it would be "confusing". My grandparents didn't even have a remote control TV at the time so you can imagine how well they took to this non-confusing channel 6 bullshit when they visited.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:And also chooses the correct input when I put in a Video Home System cassette but I think that's brand-independent? Built right into SCART. So nice everyone could enjoy that even in the 90's.
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We only had one remote, but you had to push "Video 1" to turn everything on, and a different button to turn it off. The CD player was on the stereo's switched outlet, and cycle the carousel. That sound is burned into my brain.
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Rectus posted:Built right into SCART. So nice everyone could enjoy that even in the 90's. Oh yeah I think it worked when I had my Nintendo Game Cube home computer system plugged into that port. But it doesn't work with the other SCART port that's plugged into now (using RGB) so 
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E: fuk
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several people posted:many remotes Just wait until it's on offer and get a Logitech Harmony of some sort to replace your many remotes. And then spend several days getting it to work, but once it's done you'll never touch it again... Until you get another piece of AV equipment and then you get to go through it all again, hooray! (It's pretty good once it's set up, to be honest, and it is acting as a Bluetooth keyboard to my MythTV box to control that so that I don't have to mess with lirc...)
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Horace posted:Around the same time my family had a TV which would default to channel 1 when it was turned on. You then had to change it to channel 6 to watch cable. Surprisingly irritating, since it meant we needed two remotes, one of was solely to switch the thing to channel 6 several times a day. As we never actually used the TV's own channels 1-5, I suggested re-tuning the TV so the cable box used channel 1 and we could abandon this silly second remote thing. This idea was dismissed, as it would be "confusing". My AV setup has a manual I created just to navigate through all the janky switches and passthroughs I have created when adding new devices. Also grandma did the same thing when I was a kid on a smaller scale so I could figure out how to hook up the NES without loving up their delicate balance of equipment and preserving Channel 1 = "The Fuckin' Tennis!" (is what they said whenever we asked what was on TV)
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Speaking of remotes and programming, Panasonic released a series of VCRs in the late 80s where the remote had a barcode reader. For programming scheduled recordings you'd just take out your handy sheet of barcodes and swipe the reader over them. I'll just let the hands do the talking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqs3kMW1caA
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then g code made that mostly obsolete
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Collateral Damage posted:Speaking of remotes and programming, Panasonic released a series of VCRs in the late 80s where the remote had a barcode reader. 
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Wasn't that ShowView codes in Europe?
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I knew it as "VCR Plus+". (Jokes about whether you pronounced both pluses may or may not have been made in C++ programming class.) But there was no way to use those codes to tell the VCR to keep recording an extra hour or so after the scheduled end of the show you wanted. That was necessary if there was a sporting event on before it, since those always seemed to run long and delay the entire rest of the lineup for that evening.
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Powered Descent posted:I knew it as "VCR Plus+". (Jokes about whether you pronounced both pluses may or may not have been made in C++ programming class.) Oh wow, they would delay the rest of the programming? I got to spend every Sunday pissed off because the stupid football game ran long and then I got to watch the last five minutes of a Futurama episode.
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Cojawfee posted:Oh wow, they would delay the rest of the programming? I got to spend every Sunday pissed off because the stupid football game ran long and then I got to watch the last five minutes of a Futurama episode. Networks are contractually obligated to air games to completion, at least in their home markets, after they cut a game short in 1968 to air the movie Heidi, which resulted in such a massive tidal wave of angry phone calls that NBC's switchboard blew. Even when they decided to put the game back on, they couldn't call the control room to make the switch because there were no available phone circuits.
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