• glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I remember. My family was always poor but my parents understood the value of technology. all of us had pcs, and we had a nintendo in the living room.

    Granted, we were poor, so the tech we hooked up to the tv was a bit behind. I was hype as fuck to finally have a copy of The Guardian Legend for NES while my best friend was playing mario sunshine.

    I think I had the better childhood.

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    I don’t feel nostalgic for the dark times when our televisions weighed 80 lbs just to beam us an inferior image. Sure, maybe for when being a teenager at the mall meant meeting girls and having a good time with friends walking around, buying nothing because we were all broke. But only the social aspects were better. I’ll take today’s entertainment any day of the week.

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      The quality of the media was not as good perhaps but I do miss when the world moved just a little bit slower.

      No 24h news cycle, no social media, no being pressured to be connected and available to work at all times.

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    16 hours ago

    I have two AF Toshibas. One 27 inches and the other 14. I would have more if I had a house. They are still awesome!

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    I have that exact Aiwa music player.

    Last Sunday when I went back to my parents house, I noticed that the clock was blinking because there was a blackout, so I turned on and I saw that the 5 CD changer not only gets stuck but the laser doesn’t see the discs anymore 😢

    I’m sad

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      I don’t want to brag but I have my 1985 Bang & Olufsen music system still in use. Cassette player, CD-player and vinyl player all work well. They don’t make devices like that anymore.

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      Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad’s side when I was very young.

      My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer’s not long after… So we got their TV.

      Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I’m pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn’t keep it around after that started happening regularly.

      It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.

      That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.

      We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.

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      See, now that’s just the TV stand for the newer TV on top!

      But seriously, why the fake drawers in these? The drawer handles even rotated, but you’d just be pulling against the wood.

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      great picture. I’ll bet that TV didn’t even have one of the old style remotes to change channels

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      17 hours ago

      Looks like model used in cs_militia in Counter Strike Source. Or at least reminds me of it

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      That’s eerily similar to what I grew up with. Like: “are you my sibling, and is that actually my old house”-level similar.

      Edit:nm - we had wood floors, and the fan on the right was white.

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      Wow, old memory unlocked, we had that exact tv (or maybe another model that looked very similar). It was the good TV for a long time but never made it to be the less good TV in the basement because, well look at it, it’s a tube TV built into a fucking cabinet, just throw it out.

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        I remember my parents had a Magnavox wood finish tv console. That fucker weight more then a collapsed star I swear it took 3 people to move it from one corner to another.

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      We had a Zenith version of this idea, but it still had the clunky dials for changing channels instead of those fancy buttons.

      I remember as a child, and occasional green spot would happen in the lower right of the screen and I would have to go hit it with a hammer until it went away.

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    What fascinates me is going back and watching TV shows designed for these size / type of capability TV’s, and how much less there is going on, in any frame. The characters are central, there’s no background action or skits, no huge flashing lights or whole moving cities, and it reminds me of the problems behind coco melon. I wonder if it does the same thing to adult brains it does to baby brains.

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      2 days ago

      Now most people need massive TVs, but still spend most of the time looking at the small screen on the phone.

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        Then they put that massive TV so close to where they sit that it’s just painful to actually watch anything on it because there is just no way you can get the entire image in your field of vision comfortably.

        Maybe I am old, but I miss the days when people had some sense and bought TVs actually sized for the distance they will be sitting from it.

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        Not me, I will refuse to watch any movie I’ve never seen on a tiny fucking phone screen. I at least have some standards

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            Dam. I was only able to afford the 55 inch in 2020 so I’m just rocking the CX. Which did have the hackable firmware to remove all ads from YouTube so I’m not complaining. https://rootmy.tv/

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                I’m talking about sponsor block for in video ads, but that’s very cool that you can just not agree to that, are you in Europe per chance. I’m also talking about ads before the YouTube video start

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                  Nope, I’m in North America. All LG TVs no matter where you are let you do this. Also, I use an Nvidia Shield with smart tube and it has built in sponsor block + ad blocking.

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        Because unless you’re buying a quality panel the difference between a 45 inch and 65 is usually $150. For something that you need 3 or 4 of (tops, if you have a family or large house) that’ll last 5+ years, the value proposition is high enough to spend the extra money.

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      Those TVs were in a lot of middle class homes. I think huge is pretty exaggerated. Having a house on the block with those 4 person 40-50 in TV’s was pretty common in a lot of areas IMO.

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        They weren’t huge at all. They were huge for that day.

        Sure there was 40+ inch tvs if you were willing to shell out 10k plus.

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          Not even close. We’re talking about $1000-$3000 for a decent high end. You could regularly find used for $400-$500 if you could find a team to lug them out.

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          Not that expensive at all.

          In the 90s you could get a 40in for maybe like $500.

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            $500 in the 90s would be equivalent to around $1000 today. That’s a very expensive TV and more than I’ve spent on displays in total across my adult life (which includes some nice IPS computer displays)

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              I have a 75 in lg c1 in my theater and gaming room. Plenty of folks buy nicer displays. There are plenty of high end displays selling in volumes to support a very healthy display market.

              This was true in the past as well. As stated, you talk to most middle class Americans and they knew at least one guy hosting a Superbowl party with a big ass TV.

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                I think it’s more a question of individual values in where to spend money. From my memory as a kid in the 90s I did not see very many TVs bigger than 30" in family’s homes. I did see a couple of projection screens that were comparatively massive but those of course had their own problems