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Late in 1945 Pop bought a new TV contraption! Tiny screen, but it was great I was 7 then! I believe it was a Viewtone not sure, but we had a big antenna on the roof. The neighbors found out about it and we got a lot of visitors to look at it. The men found out that there were fights on a certain night, the house was full of men watching a tiny 4X5 inch screen viewing the Friday night fights, like Joe Lewis etc. 2 channels that's it, on at 6 PM and off at 11, none during the day. Later we got a new TV 16" screen, it was like going to the movies! Kinda like the old days old days. PJ :ROFLMAO:

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Reminds me of the old cartoon: Mother is flipping a coin: "Heads we watch "Lawrence Welk; tails we watch Disneyland, and if it lands on it's edge, your father can watch the fights."
 
HaHa Yeah pop was always on the tail end of the list! :jester:
 
In the late '50s, dad brought home one of the new RCA color TVs - a CT-100. He knew the store owner, so got a "deal".

Dad spent hours setting it up, then adjusting it (color, focus, convergence, etc.)for every color show. "Your Hit Parade" in color was a favorite. Just after it Dragnet came on, but the color was terrible.

Dad called the station (WBAP in Fort Worth), and asked why the color was so bad.

Answer: It's a black and white show.
 
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John Turney said:
Reminds me of the old cartoon: Mother is flipping a coin: "Heads we watch "Lawrence Welk; tails we watch Disneyland, and if it lands on it's edge, your father can watch the fights."
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WOW! - You had THREE channels?
We only had TWO.
 
Had 4 when I was a kid, that included one PBS and the 3 networks in the 60s. Now I don't do streaming but still have close to 50 over the air. Pretty much everything I want, and the rest I download online instead of stream.
 
My Dad bought a fancy Motorola TV with a remove control around 1960. The batteries in the remote control died within a week. Our neighbor asked "what are you gonna do about the remote control" Dad responded (pointing at us 4 kids) "It's okay I have 4 backups"

Rod
 
I've seen some video as transmitted from the early 60s when I was a kid. Now days I'm so accustomed to HD quality where you can count the nose hairs, I wonder how you could tell who was who and what was going on. And with 4g, 8g and maybe walk around or actually sit in holographic tech one day, the not yet born will wonder the same things about today.
 
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