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Are you too young to remember these? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

As a boy I had to stand up and walk to the TV to switch channel pressing buttons. No remote.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    And then you pull too hard on the power button and it comes off and you get hit/yelled at by dad

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I had an old small tv like that in my bedroom. There was a dial for vhf and another for UHF. The two UHF channels we had were about 20 and 31, but I found if I dialed it all the way to 90 or so sometimes I could hear voices talking to each other. Usually just boring phone calls, I showed my friends once and we listened to my friends uncle on a call by chance, he recognised the voice and the people he was talking about.

    Then they switched mobile phones to a digital signal.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Landline portable antenna phones had some prettybad channel bleed, esp if you live in an apt complex with a local Walmart - bunch of phones would all be the same cheapo Panasonic (or whatever) model and we'd hear someone pretty often if you stand in the right spot.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    My TV only had 4 button for 4 channels so once we got more than 4 channels we had to use a small wheel to change frequencies and look for them.

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