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If it's not broken... (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

if that TV was recent enough to be “cable ready”

It has dials. The kind that make an audible thunk when you change the channel. You think there's really a chance of it being cable-ready?!

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, I had a TV in the 80s that had vhf/uhf tuning dials and coax as well since it was "cable ready". It was also oddly setup with the coax input directly below the uhf/vhf standoffs. So anything you connected to it got in the way of interacting with the coax in. And if the coax you used had a wide nut for threading on it could wind up touching the prongs on the uhf/vhf inputs feet causing fun interference.

Transitional era technology is fun like that.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

the prongs on the uhf/vhf inputs feet

Prongs? I had to look that up since I hadn't heard of a VHF/UHF connection with prongs before. That doesn't seem very friendly compared to just using a regular plug? In Australia we used these connectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector which have existed since the 1920s.

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These are the cables I was familiar with way back then.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 7 months ago

Wow, interesting. I don't think we had those in Australia. I was born in the very early 90s but my mum had a TV from the 1960s and it had a regular plug (like the one I linked to) for the antenna. Those prongs don't seem user-friendly :)