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Message 1591269 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 8:46:40 UTC - in response to Message 1591266.  


In 1976 I bought an RCA 25" color TV it was like furniture.


We had a two different Zenith console TV's, from the 1st moon landing 'til 1990-ish, and the last one is sitting in my mom's basement. It needs something, but it still looks nice as furniture, and an antique relic, ;~}. I really don't like the look of the flat screen TV's. I just have never gotten used to them, or the wide dimensions.
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Message 1591303 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 10:49:11 UTC - in response to Message 1591301.  

I watched the funeral of King George VI and the Coronation in 1953 on a neighbours b/w set. We got our first tv in 1956, a 19" b/w 405 line one. 625 line colour came in 1967. And yes I prefer the 4:3 aspect ratio sets to the 16:9 ones of today, but to be fair they are more true to life as you have better peripheral vision left to right than you have up and down. My new 40" flat-screen is so slim you can hang it on the wall like a picture, that is the only advantage that I can see, a 40" CRT set would need scaffolding!!


I see what you're saying about the peripheral vision, but a living room isn't a movie theatre(though some people try to make it that way nowadays). As much as I truly love tv, I don't want it to be the focal point of the room. That was one of the nice things about the old console TV's because they blended in as pieces of furniture.
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Message 1591308 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 11:16:30 UTC - in response to Message 1591303.  

I watched the funeral of King George VI and the Coronation in 1953 on a neighbours b/w set. We got our first tv in 1956, a 19" b/w 405 line one. 625 line colour came in 1967. And yes I prefer the 4:3 aspect ratio sets to the 16:9 ones of today, but to be fair they are more true to life as you have better peripheral vision left to right than you have up and down. My new 40" flat-screen is so slim you can hang it on the wall like a picture, that is the only advantage that I can see, a 40" CRT set would need scaffolding!!


I see what you're saying about the peripheral vision, but a living room isn't a movie theatre(though some people try to make it that way nowadays). As much as I truly love tv, I don't want it to be the focal point of the room. That was one of the nice things about the old console TV's because they blended in as pieces of furniture.

Focal point of the room? You can hide a flat screen TV completely if you want.
Some would that the new TVs blend in better because they're not pieces of furniture.
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Message 1591318 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 11:41:08 UTC - in response to Message 1591308.  
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I watched the funeral of King George VI and the Coronation in 1953 on a neighbours b/w set. We got our first tv in 1956, a 19" b/w 405 line one. 625 line colour came in 1967. And yes I prefer the 4:3 aspect ratio sets to the 16:9 ones of today, but to be fair they are more true to life as you have better peripheral vision left to right than you have up and down. My new 40" flat-screen is so slim you can hang it on the wall like a picture, that is the only advantage that I can see, a 40" CRT set would need scaffolding!!


I see what you're saying about the peripheral vision, but a living room isn't a movie theatre(though some people try to make it that way nowadays). As much as I truly love tv, I don't want it to be the focal point of the room. That was one of the nice things about the old console TV's because they blended in as pieces of furniture.

Focal point of the room? You can hide a flat screen TV completely if you want.
Some would that the new TVs blend in better because they're not pieces of furniture.

And you can use new TVs to show Pictures, like a painting or some other nice pics.
Or why not, a fireplace with both moving pictures and sound:)
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Message 1591342 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 13:18:30 UTC

My local cable company has a fireplace channel, 24 7, complete with gentle crackling sounds. Looks good on a big screen TV.

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Message 1591365 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 14:31:28 UTC

When we got colour TV in Nova Scotia. On the national TV channel
(CBC) they broadcast a show called Telescope. The star of that
show was a man named Fletcher Markle who showed up with skin colour
like a lobster. We all thought, wow what a sight to see. We thought
Canada had more than any thing we would ever need.



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Message 1591493 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 18:48:19 UTC - in response to Message 1591483.  

Think they need to produce one for women!
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Message 1591497 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 19:15:32 UTC - in response to Message 1591483.  

Correct dress


Don Cherry "Rock 'em Sock 'em Techno"
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Message 1591505 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 19:30:18 UTC

Captain Midnight,
USA, circa 1950, around 5pm.
"High atop the tower ..."

It couldn't get any better than that.
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Message 1591508 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 19:36:20 UTC - in response to Message 1591505.  
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Captain Midnight,
USA, circa 1950, around 5pm.
"High atop the tower ..."
It couldn't get any better than that.

Captain Midnight with some Ovaltine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ZAISx-jdw
O'boy. Chocolate version of Ovaltine. O’boy have been around since 1959.
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Message 1591509 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 19:37:43 UTC - in response to Message 1591508.  

My big mouth and small memory.

It was Captain Video I was thinking of.
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Message 1591513 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 19:58:44 UTC - in response to Message 1591509.  
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My big mouth and small memory.
It was Captain Video I was thinking of.

Do you mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0xOhK6kPyM
Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere is a 15-chapter serial released by Columbia Pictures in 1951. The serial is unique for several reasons--- in particular, it is the first and last film serial ever based on a television program
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Message 1591521 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 20:20:17 UTC - in response to Message 1591513.  

Ha,ha
That was it -- "high atop the mountain" but I really couldn't remember any of the faces. Was that film made using the original players do you know?

My big mouth and small memory.
It was Captain Video I was thinking of.

Do you mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0xOhK6kPyM
Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere is a 15-chapter serial released by Columbia Pictures in 1951. The serial is unique for several reasons--- in particular, it is the first and last film serial ever based on a television program

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Message 1591532 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 20:43:09 UTC - in response to Message 1591266.  

No, Im not knocking you young folk, But I could still get off my ass and change a channel by hand if I had to, Or put a tape in a VHS machine. Or play a record on a turntable, Or even thread a tape on a reel to reel.
But to be honest I have to ask my Grandkids how to do certain functions on my smart phone.

The last 20 years have seen a giant leap in technology.
And I like that you can see just about any show ever made on you tube or the equivalent.

I can still get off my ass to do that, except that with modern TVs it's actually very difficult to change the channels. Instead of a big know to turn, there are just little buttons and you have to keep pressing them until you get to the channel you want. They're really designed to use the remote now.

I can also do most stuff on my phone, at least the stuff I want to do (I haven't learned to enter text by swiping). So I guess I'm at a nice in-between age where I can do it all.
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Message 1591535 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 20:48:46 UTC - in response to Message 1591521.  

Ha,ha
That was it -- "high atop the mountain" but I really couldn't remember any of the faces. Was that film made using the original players do you know?

My big mouth and small memory.
It was Captain Video I was thinking of.

Do you mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0xOhK6kPyM
Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere is a 15-chapter serial released by Columbia Pictures in 1951. The serial is unique for several reasons--- in particular, it is the first and last film serial ever based on a television program

I Think it is the original players.
Before my time though:)

The Space Captain and his Video Ranger must save the universe from the evil Dr. Pauli... and low production values.
This episode was originally broadcast live in 1949.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvSfwyCxEl8
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Message 1591544 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 21:14:25 UTC - in response to Message 1591535.  

and low production values. lol

Thanks janneseti,

It could very well be the real actors. I don't know. I would remember Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon and Doctor Zharkov though even 100 years from now.

Is that really you with that happy smiley face??
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Message 1591568 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 21:48:44 UTC - in response to Message 1591544.  
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and low production values. lol
Thanks janneseti,
It could very well be the real actors. I don't know. I would remember Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon and Doctor Zharkov though even 100 years from now.
Is that really you with that happy smiley face??

No thats my friend from Finland, Jarmo Bräkinen:)
He has some dad issues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMtBeIY1N5E
Seften Svenne.

Flash Gordon:) Here he's called Blixt Gordon.
Max von Sydow’s beard-stroking Emperor of Mongo and wannabe Ruler of the Universe, Ming the Merciless.
Ah. Comic books from the 60's. Thats retro to me!
The Phantom. Rip Kirby. MAD!
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Message 1591569 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 21:52:22 UTC - in response to Message 1591568.  

Says we can't get it (youtube) here!

and low production values. lol
Thanks janneseti,
It could very well be the real actors. I don't know. I would remember Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon and Doctor Zharkov though even 100 years from now.
Is that really you with that happy smiley face??

No thats my friend from Finland, Jarmo Bräkinen:)
He has some dad issues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMtBeIY1N5E
Seften Svenne.

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Message 1591575 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 22:08:38 UTC - in response to Message 1591569.  
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Says we can't get it (youtube) here!

Strange UK and Australia can see it.
Anyway. All started with this ad from Finland with real men:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15evAadnq4I

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Message 1591614 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 23:15:12 UTC

Commercials from the 60's:)
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